Background
Smith, Horace Herbert was born on June 8, 1868 in Wentworth County, Ontario. Son of David F. and Mary Calista (Adams) Smith.
Smith, Horace Herbert was born on June 8, 1868 in Wentworth County, Ontario. Son of David F. and Mary Calista (Adams) Smith.
Educated Hamilton (Ontario) Collegiate Institute.
In newspaper work in Ontario. City editor Burlington (Iowa) Gazette and Cedar Rapids Gazette, 1889-1892. Reporter on Anaconda Standard, Butte, Montana, 1892-1899.
Reporter, city editor and managing editor, Cincinnati Post, 1899-1902.
A Washington correspondent New York World, 1902-1905. With Equitable Life Assurance Society, since 1905(confidential position on personal staff of Paul Morton until about time of Mr.
Morton’s death). President American Synthite Corporation, manufacturers synthetic gum.
Mason.; Clubs: Lawyers’, National Arts (New York).
Married Annie West. Fleming, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, March 28, 1905.