Robert Melville Smith (14 October 1887 – 16 November 1950) [1 ] [2 ] was a civil engineer, who, as deputy minister of the Ontario Department of Highways (now the Ministry of Transportation) between 1928 and 1943, designed and constructed…
Eliza was the daughter of Robert Porter Parker, a prominent landowner and merchant who had died in 1800. Eliza's mother, Elizabeth Rittenhouse (née Porter) Parker, [7 ] a daughter of Col. Andrew Porter did not remarry prior to her death in…