Smith, Lydia Hamilton, 1813-1884
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O'Neill, Lydia, 1813-1884
Hamilton, Lydia, 1813-1884
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found: Kelley, Mark. An uncommon woman, 2023:ECIP title page (Lydia Hamilton Smith) ECIP preface page (some biographers insist that her full name, prior to her marriage, was Lydia O'Neill, O'Neill being her mother's last name. But Lydia chose to use Hamilton as her last name. She added Smith to it after she married Jacob Smith, but the inscription on the marble memorial placed by her grave in 1884 identified her as Lydia Hamilton, widow of Jacob Smith)
found: Wikipedia, May 17, 2023(Lydia Hamilton Smith (February 14, 1813 - February 14, 1884) was the long-time housekeeper of Thaddeus Stevens and a prominent black businesswoman after his death. Lydia Hamilton was born at Russell Tavern near Gettysburg in Adams County, Pennsylvania, US. She was the widow of Gettysburg barber Jacob Smith (died 1852), by whom she had two children. Separated from her husband, Smith moved to Lancaster with her mother and sons in 1847 and accepted a position as housekeeper to prominent lawyer and abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens. Stevens and Smith were active in the Underground Railroad. After Stevens's death in 1868, in addition to buying his house in Lancaster, Smith operated a prosperous boarding house across from the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., as well as invested in real estate and other business ventures. Lydia Hamilton Smith died in Washington on her 71st birthday in 1884) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Hamilton_Smith
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2023-05-17: new
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