Gilbert Haven Smith (1882 - 1959)

Born 27 Dec 1882 in Greensboro, Caroline County, Maryland

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Gilbert Haven Smith was born in 1882 and died in 1959. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and was a contemporary of noted Pennsylvania landscape impressionist Daniel Garber.

His primary career path led him to the ministry of the New Church (officially know as the General Church of the New Jerusalem), with Glenview, Illinois as his final pastorate in the 1940s. During his working life he painted a number of landscapes, also beach scenes at Lake Michigan. There is a family ancedote, that as a minister, Gilbert Haven Smith often gave one of his paintings as a wedding gift to couples whose ceremonies he officiated.

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• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=67742983

http://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Gilbert_Haven_Smith/11155413/Gilbert_Haven_Smith.aspx

"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3W4-T43 : accessed 24 November 2017), Gilbert H Smith in household of John E Smith, Philadelphia city Ward 24, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 567, sheet 5B, family 104, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,466.

"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MG8L-CFT : accessed 24 November 2017), Gilbert H Smith, Moreland, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 107, sheet 7B, family 163, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1378; FHL microfilm 1,375,391.

"United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6D9-DJV : 12 December 2014), Gilbert Haven Smith, 1917-1918; citing Cook County no 1, Illinois, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,504,101.

"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSRQ-4QX : accessed 25 November 2017), Gilbert H Smith, Northfield, Cook, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 2236, sheet 16A, line 16, family 356, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 501; FHL microfilm 2,340,236.

"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KW4Q-3RJ : accessed 24 November 2017), Gilbert H Smith, Glenview, Northfield Township, Cook, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 16-339, sheet 3B, line 48, family 44, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 782.