Murray Forbes Smith

His sister, Anne Amelia Smith, was the second wife of James Innes Thornton, the Secretary of State of Alabama from 1824 to 1834.

[5] Around 1859, the Smith family moved North to New York City shortly before the Civil War and settled in Madison Square.

After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, New York was no longer safe for Southerners so the Smiths moved to Europe where he worked as a cotton broker in the north of England at Liverpool.

[5] His wife and children lived near Paris, where his daughter Alva attended boarding school in Neuilly, France.

[5] In 1869, the family returned to Alabama, but the South was still in reconstruction and Smith was unable to get his business successfully restarted so they again moved to New York.