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Frank Herbert Smith

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Frank Herbert Smith

Birth
Connecticut, USA
Death
8 Mar 1952 (aged 88)
Connecticut, USA
Burial
Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA GPS-Latitude: 41.5349042, Longitude: -72.6568939
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Frank was born in Thomaston, CT. He owned hardware stores in his working years in Middletown and Waterbury. They lived in Middletown, CT and Waterbury, CT. He built a "cottage" on Stannard Beach (on Long Island Sound) in Westbrook, CT in 1900 and the cottage still stands today.
Frank introduced the game of basketball to CT. in 1895 after he saw the game played in Johnsbury, VT. Frank was with the YMCA in Middletown, CT. He bought balls and the basket and set it up at the YMCA at the running track there and organized a team.
He married May L. Barnum in 1892. She was the daughter of George Williams Barnum and Harriet Elvira Seymour Barnum.
They are the parents of Raymond, Gladys, Langdon, Marjorie and Carleton (my father).
Frank was born in Thomaston, CT. He owned hardware stores in his working years in Middletown and Waterbury. They lived in Middletown, CT and Waterbury, CT. He built a "cottage" on Stannard Beach (on Long Island Sound) in Westbrook, CT in 1900 and the cottage still stands today.
Frank introduced the game of basketball to CT. in 1895 after he saw the game played in Johnsbury, VT. Frank was with the YMCA in Middletown, CT. He bought balls and the basket and set it up at the YMCA at the running track there and organized a team.
He married May L. Barnum in 1892. She was the daughter of George Williams Barnum and Harriet Elvira Seymour Barnum.
They are the parents of Raymond, Gladys, Langdon, Marjorie and Carleton (my father).


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