Vinton Marshall Smith

Vinton Marshall Smith, my great grandfather and father of Marguerite Smith, was born Dec 30, 1897 in Manitoba, Canada.  At the age of 4 he resided in Dauphin, Canada (Manitoba, northwest of Winnipeg).  With him were his parents and his 1 year old brother Russel.  They immigrated to the U.S. in 1903, and in 1910 he lived with his brother, his sister Marguerite B. Smith, his aunt and his paternal grandmother in New Hampshire, where his father was born.  In 1920 he was 22, Married to Isabel Lovell (20) and living in Taunton, Mass.  During the early '20s he worked as a fireman in Taunton.  The photo is of the Old Taunton firehouse which is the oldest active firehouse in America built in 1869.  By 1928 he had left Taunton and divorced his wife who lived with her father afterwards.  He moved to Boston and lived there for most of the 1930's remarrying a woman named Marion.  During that time he worked as an engineer.  They moved to New Haven, Conn. in the 1940's were he got another firefighting job, and then to Hamden, Conn. in the late 50's.  He was living in Naples, Maine at the age of 88 and died in nearby Bridgton, Maine at the age of 90 in 1988.