Herbert Augustine Smith

Background

Smith, Herbert Augustine was born on December 6, 1866 in Southampton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Review Burritt Augustus and Ellen Maria (Rowley) Smith.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1889. Doctor of Philosophy, 1897. Student Sorbonne, France, 1899-1900.

Career

Assistant in English, Yale, 1891-1892, instructor, 1892-1898. Editorial writer New York Evening Post and World’s Work, 1900-1901. Editor Division, later bureau of Forestry and now the United States Forest Service, 1901-1920, assistant forester in charge public relations, 1920-1925, special assignments, 1926-1934.

Editor in chief Journal of Forestry, 1935-1937.

Historical studies Forest Service, 1937, collaborator, 1938. Chairman commission on editorial work of President Theodore Roosevelt’s Committee on Departmental Business Methods.

Achievements

• Herbert Augustine Smith has been listed as a notable United States Forest Service, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Society of America Foresters, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Agricultural History Society (member editorial board Agricultural, History, quarterly publication), Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Delta Phi, Skull and Bones (Yale). Clubs: Cosmos (Washington, District of Columbia).

Connections

Married Loretta Josephine Mead, April. Married second, Mistress. Children: Gifford Pinchot (deceased), Theodore Studwell, Earl, Sarah Frances (Mistress William Peter Marseilles, Junior.

Father:

Review Burritt Augustus Smith

Mother:

Ellen Maria (Rowley) Smith

Spouse:

Mistress

Spouse:

Loretta Josephine Mead

child:

Junior Smith

child:

Sarah Frances (Mistress William Peter Marseilles Smith

child:

Theodore Studwell Smith

child:

Gifford Pinchot Smith (deceased)

child:

Earl Smith