Nathan Smit was a son of Levie Isaak Smit and Mietje Benedictus Bak. He was a porter, diamond polischer and diamondbroker. He was born in Amsterdam on 27 May 1857 and lived with his parents at Batavierstraat 222. He married 4 June 1879 in Amsterdam to Heintje de Wolf, aged 22, a daughter of Ekiva David de Wolf, painter and glazier and Mietje Mozes Stokvis. The couple had ten children, of whom a Da…