Franklin Gatewood Smith Sr. (1865 - 1954)

Born 1865 in Alabama, United States

Husband of Lena (Calhoun) Smith — married 25 Dec 1888 in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States

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Biography

Franklin Smith Sr. is a part of US Black heritage.

Franklin Smith Sr. was born in Alabama.

Dr. Frank Smith, a native of Selma, Alabama and an ophthalmologist, was born in 1865. He married Lena Calhoun on Christmas Day, 1888 in Hamilton County, Tennessee. Lena's sister, Cora Calhoun Horne, would become grandmother to performer Lena Horne.

In the early 1900s, Dr. Smith became a teacher at Pearl High School for African American youth, in Nashville, Tennessee, and rose to the position of Principal. He also completed medical courses at Meharry Medical College and was the first man in Tennessee to pass the State Board of Pharmacy held at Vanderbilt University. Later in life, he moved to Chicago and received his optometry training at the Illinois College of Optometry. He died in April 1954.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Obituary. Nashville Banner, April 16, 1954, Page 31. via Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/nashville-banner-obituary-for-frank-g-sm/79851368/ : accessed November 26, 2023), clip page for Obituary for Frank G Smith SMITH by user katya

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS84-8SP : accessed 19 June 2021), Frank G Smith, Nashville city Ward 16, Davidson, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 106, sheet 27B, family 595, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,565.

• News Article. Negro Prosperity in the South. Colored American, 22 August 1903, page 4. Accessed 26 November 2023.  https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83027091/1903-08-22/ed-1/seq-4/

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGXR-J36 : accessed 18 June 2021), Franklin G Smith, Nashville Ward 9, Davidson, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 37, sheet 8A, family 143, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1495; FHL microfilm 1,375,508.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWTR-474 : 8 January 2021), Frank G Smith, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 103-165, sheet 27A, line 12, family 697, 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 926.

• Buckley, Gail Lumet. The Hornes: an American Family. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, 1986

• Buckley, Gail Lumet. The Black Calhouns. New York, NY: Grove Press, 2016