User blog comment:Scrawland Scribblescratch/Presidential Stuff/@comment-1630894-20120902034304/@comment-4727448-20120903031155

I had Smith born earlier and to the same father and different mother. His father was with the 11th New York Fire Zouaves (correct spelling) at the start of the Civil War, so I assume he was about eighteen. Now let's say his first child (Al Smith) was conceived soon after the Civil War, at the age of 23 or 24 at the least. So this would be 1867 or 1868. By 1912 Al Smith would be 43 or 44 by time of election.