Reginald Garstin Smith; married August 19, 1926; his second marriage (Johanna Pferffer, had two children, Howard died age 10 in Chicago and Geoffery Garstin Smith, shortened to Geoffery Garstin and died in Maryland)
born in Nagpur, India 1868
May 5, 1866
Rockford, Illinois
May 29, 1944
Rockford, Illinois
parents' home: 922 N. Church St., Rockford, Illinois
last residence: 1214 National Ave., Rockford, Illinois
Painter-Oil
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
December 21, 1898 to January 15, 1899: Annual Exhibition Art Students' League, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Road to the Village and View near Geneva, Ill. and Still Life
1900: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Daughters of the American Revolution
circa 1906-?: drawing teacher at high school, with more students than she had time to teach
Parents were Cornelius C. (of Staten Island, NY) and Kate E. Burpee Brantingham.
Graduated from Rockford High School June 25, 1886.
The Smiths started the collecting for the Rockford DAR Museum about 1914.