Author talk:Edward Garstin Smith

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Marriage
Name: 	Edward Garstin Smith Gender: 	Male Birth Place: 	Calcutta, Calcutta EI Marriage Date: 	27 Apr 1901 Marriage Place: 	Rockingham, Vermont, USA Marriage Age: 	39 Card Type: 	Groom Father Name: 	Chas Garstin Smith Mother Name: 	Mathilde Sanderson Spouse Name: 	Dora Kirby Findley
 * State of Vermont. Vermont Vital Records through 1870. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

birth
Name: 	August Edward Garstin Smith Gender: 	Male Birth Date: 	3 May 1862 Birth Place: 	India Office Ecclesiastical Returns-Bengal Presidency,, Misc, India Father: 	Charles Smith Mother: 	Mathilde FHL Film Number: 	499007
 * India, Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

naturalisation
Names of Persons in Entry: 	Edward Garstin Smith Subject Title: 	Anarchists - Chicago Date: 	4 Jun 1919 INS Reference Number: 	54,616-253 Roll Content Description: 	American Federation of Labor - Bigamy Roll Number: 	3 Archive Publication Number: 	Subject Index to Correspondence and Case Files of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1903-1952
 * Subject Index to Correspondence and Case Files of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1903-1952. NARA microfilm publication T458, 31 rolls > National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Roll #: 3

passenger
Name: 	Edward G Smith Arrival Age: 	60 Birth Date: 	abt 1862 Port of Departure: 	Montréal, Québec, Canada Arrival Date: 	15 Jun 1922 Port of Arrival: 	Southampton, England Ship Name: 	Minnedosa Shipping Line: 	Canadian Pacific Line Official Number: 	142717
 * The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists.; Class: BT26; Piece: 727

Directory
Name: 	Edward Garstin Smith Residence Year: 	1908 Residence Place: 	Gary, Indiana, USA Publication Title: 	Gary, Indiana, City Directory, 1908 Occupation: Real estate
 * Gary, Indiana, City Directory, 1908

web
August Edward Garstin SMITH, (b 1862, Calcutta, baptized 9 Sep 1862, Old Church, Fort William, Calcutta, George Lovely presided). He immigrated to the United States and proclaimed in a book that he wrote that he was a "Citizen of the World". No mention of him can be found on any USA census although his name can be researched using Edward G or Edward Garstin Smith and books/brochures and essays written by him are in various collections in various libraries. In the same book he said that his first pet was an elephant. No information about his death. Married Ida LELAND, NYC, removed to Chicago, had 2 children::
 * https://www.anglofamilytrees.com/smith_family_tree.htm

Ina Smith b. 4 Jan 1891 Chicago, Illinois USA (death cert.)

Leland Smith b.11 Aug 1899 Chicago, Illinois USA per mother's affidavit dated 8 Apr 1925.

Ina and Leland were adopted by their maiden aunt and sister of Ida, Harriet Leland after their parents divorced in 1900, Rhode Island, USA. Ina Smith became Ina Leland and Leland Hosmer Smith became Leland Hosmer Leland. They were adopted in 1900 per Surrogate Court Documents Balston Spa, New York USA

Leland Hosmer Leland died 5 Apr 1926 as a result of injuries sustained after a fall down a hatchway in a ship at port in NYC. He applied for and received a Seaman's Certificate a year before he died.

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 * https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Blog/Item/Rabbit%20Hole%201

August Edward Garstin Smith was born in 1862 in Calcutta, India, to Charles and Mathilda Smith. He apparently lived there for several years as a child, but at some point moved to Saxony, Germany, where he received his primary education (likely around 1867, according to birth records of his various siblings). In 1872 his family appear to have moved again, coming this time to the United States.

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