About Kate Smeed Cross
Lived 1859 – 1943 (aged 83). Kate Smeed Cross was an American social worker.
Katherine Smeed Cross (November 18, 1859 - September 11, 1943) was an American social leader.
Early life Katherine (nickname, "Kate") Smeed was born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 18, 1859, the daughter of Colonel Eben C. Smeed (1830-1892), a civil engineer with the Union Pacific Railroad, and Mary A. Smeed (1833-1876). In 1869, she moved with her parents to Lawrence, Kansas, where the next seven years were spent in school and studying in the University of Kansas. They divorced in 1895 and Smeed moved to California.
She died on September 11, 1943, Orange County, California, and is buried at Fairhaven Memorial Park, Santa Ana, California.
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American social leader (1859-1943)
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Kate Smeed Cross was born on 17 November 1859 in Philadelphia.
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Kate Smeed Cross died on 11 September 1943.
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Kate Smeed Cross was a social worker.
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