Background
Smith, Elsdon COles was born on January 25, 1903 in Virginia, Illinois, United States. Son of George Walter and Eva (Coles) Smith.
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Joseph Smith wasn’t merely the Book of Mormon’s prophetic translator—he was also a student of the sacred record. Schooling the Prophet offers evidence that the Latter-day Saint prophet was quietly influenced by one of the most important sources of religious thought and sacred protocol that he knew—the Book of Mormon—on issues such as the nature of God, priesthood, and the temple.
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(Elsdon Smith begins this work with a discussion of the de...)
Elsdon Smith begins this work with a discussion of the development of hereditary surnames and then he divides his subject into six broad categories: Classification of Surnames, Surnames from Father's Name (patronymics), Surnames from Occupation or Office, Surnames from Description or Action (nicknames), Surnames from Places, and Surnames Not Properly Included Elsewhere. In these areas he expounds on such subjects as abbreviated names, surnames derived from animals, changes of names by immigrants, ethnic names, names indicating nationality, surnames from place names, European names, Asian names, names of Blacks and Indians, surnames without vowels, surnames from Christian names, landscape names, Jewish names, surnames from history, garbled names, comic or odd names, and hyphenated names. The list is almost endless and Mr. Smith is unstinting in his explanation of the roots and meaning of these names. In addition, he provides a list of the 2,000 most common surnames in the United States today, ranked in order of frequency with an estimate of the number of persons bearing each name.
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Smith, Elsdon COles was born on January 25, 1903 in Virginia, Illinois, United States. Son of George Walter and Eva (Coles) Smith.
Bachelor of Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1925; Bachelor of Laws, Harvard University, 1930; Juris Doctor, Harvard University, 1969.
Associate, Follansbee, Shorey, Schupp, Chicago, 1933-1948; associate, Blumberg & Smith, Chicago, 1949-1958; associate, Blumberg SMith Wolff & Pennish, Chicago, 1958-1962; associate, Friedman Koven Salzman Konigsberg Homer, Chicago, 1962-1976. Member of faculty Chicago Law School, Chicago, 1933-1935.
(Elsdon Smith begins this work with a discussion of the de...)
( Joseph Smith wasn’t merely the Book of Mormon’s prophet...)
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Member American Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, American Name Society, American Folklore American Dialect Society, Modern Language Association, British Place Name Society, International Congress of Onomastic Sciences.
Married Clare Irvette Hutchins, December 23, 1933, 1 child, Laurel Gleda.