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Smith, Sterling Cyrus[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Male 1866 - 1936  (70 years)

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  • Name Smith, Sterling Cyrus 
    • VARIANT NAMES: Smith, S.C.; Smith, S. Cyrus.
    Birth 13 Jan 1866  Colebrook, CT Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7] 
    Gender Male 
    Business Address/Year 1904-1910?  North Yakima, WA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    114 South 9th Street
    Enterprise Photo Studio
    North Yakima, WA
    USA 
    Business Address/Year 1902?-1903?  Enterprise, OR Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address undetermined 
    Business Address/Year 1913  Portland, OR Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    ss Foster rd 3
    w S Main Lents
    Portland, OR
    USA 
    Where Active (Non-Specific Address) 1905?  Victoria, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Visit 
    • A stereograph owned by a private collector shows part of the framework of the Empress Hotel, construction of which started in 1905 after the deadline date of late Dec 1904 for tenders.
    Death 29 Aug 1936  Portland, OR Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Burial Rose City Cemetery, Portland, OR Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Person ID I2330  Camera Workers | S, vol. 2, 1901-1950
    Last Modified 4 Nov 2023 

  • Photos
    S.C. Smith stereo of Victoria from Parliament Buildings, ca. 1905.    		S.C. Smith stereo of Victoria from Parliament Buildings, ca. 1905.
    The photograph depicts part of Government Street with a carriage heading north. The James Bay tidal flats have been filled in and the initial framework of the Empress Hotel are visible. Tenders were advertised for the hotel in late Oct 1904 with a deadline of late Dec 1904.
    S.C. Smith stereo of the Parliament Buildings, Victoria, ca. 1905.    		S.C. Smith stereo of the Parliament Buildings, Victoria, ca. 1905.
    This photograph was most likely taken at the same time as the stereo showing part of Victoria from the Parliament Buildings.

  • Notes 
    • STATUS: Commercial; stereo publisher.
    • BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: In 1900 he was working as a minister in East Kittitas, WA. After working as a photographer in Enterprise, OR, in the early 1900s, he moved to North Yakima where he continued to photograph until at least 1910. When he married for a subsequent time, he was a widower working as a mill worker and living in Portland, OR. By 1913 he was once again a photographer in Portland, OR, and then turned his hand to cabinet making.

  • Sources 
    1. [S612] Carl Mautz, Mautz (1997), (Nevada City, Calif.: Carl Mautz Publishing, 1997), 392 and 503.

    2. [S924] Ancestry.ca (Web site).
      1900 United States Federal Census

    3. [S924] Ancestry.ca (Web site).
      1910 United States Federal Census

    4. [S924] Ancestry.ca (Web site).
      Smith, S Cyrus photgr
      U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995: Portland, OR, 1913.

    5. [S924] Ancestry.ca (Web site).
      Washington State Archives; Olympia, Washington; Washington Marriage Records, 1854-2013: Smith, Sterling C.

    6. [S924] Ancestry.ca (Web site).
      Oregon State Archives; Salem, Oregon; Oregon, Death Records, 1864-1967

    7. [S832] Find a Grave (Web site).
      URL (accessed 4 Nov 2023): https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/164495110/sterling-cyrus-smith