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Murray Forbes Smith (July 21, 1814 – May 4, 1875) was an American commission merchant best known as the father of Alva Belmont . Early life. Smith was born on July 21, 1814, in Dumfries, Virginia. He was a son of Edinburgh born George Smith (1765–1822) and Delia ( née Forbes) Smith (1780–1841). who married in 1799.
Murray Forbes Smith House. Mobile. He started his professional life as a lawyer but at the suggestion of his father-in-law, Congressman Robert Desha, he went into the cotton business at Mobile, Alabama, and was soon very successful.
When Murray Forbes Smith Sr. was born on 21 July 1814, in Dumfries, Prince William, Virginia, United States, his father, George Smith, was 48 and his mother, Delia Sterling Forbes, was 34. He married Phoebe Ann Desha on 30 May 1840, in Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States.
Murray Forbes Smith. Born 21 Jul 1814 in Dumfries, Prince William, Virginia, United States. Ancestors. Son of George Alexander Smith and Delia Stirling (Forbes) Smith. Brother of William Forbes Smith, George A. Smith, Anne Amelia (Smith) Thornton, John Erskine Smith and Sallie Innes (Smith) Willis.
Murray Forbes Smith. Cotton Broker, of Mobile, Alabama; and, New York City. 1814-1875. Phoebe Ann Desha. Mrs Phoebe (Desha) Smith. 1821-1871. Murray Smith abandoned his legal career to enter the cotton business started by his father-in-law, Robert Desha, back when Mobile was a boomtown.
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When Murray Forbes Smith Jr. was born on 2 August 1844, in Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States, his father, Murray Forbes Smith Sr., was 30 and his mother, Phoebe Ann Desha, was 22. He died on 18 November 1857, in Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States, at the age of 13, and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United ...
