Background
SMITH, Howard Ira was born on February 14, 1884 in Finleyville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Henry and Amelia M. (Uhr) Smith.
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Howard Ira SMITH
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Preparatory Course Pennsylvania State College, 1903. School Mines and Metallurgy, Bachelor of Science, Pennsylvania State College, 1907, E.M.
Career
Appointed Junior. Ming. Engineer, United States Bureau. of Mines, 1910. Resigned as District Ming.
Engineer, Urbana, 111., 1917, to become Assistant General Superintendent, Vandaliq. Coal Company; resigned to become Mining member American Technical Mission to Jugoslavia, 1919. Returned and entered pvt. oil practice, 1920.
Appointed Mining Supervisor, Bureau. Mines, Denver, Colorado, 1920. Transferred to Washington.
June 1924; appointed Engineer in Charge Mineral Leasing Division. Work transferred to United States Geological. Survey, since 1925. Chief Mineral Leasing Division., United States Geological.
Membership
Member: Masons; Kappa Sigma Pi. A.I.M.E.; C.M. Institute, of American. Railway Mountain. Coal Ming.
Institute.; Wash Geological. Society; Sigma Gamma Epsilon. Clubs: Trowel, Tall Cedars.
Pick and Hammer.
Connections
Spouse E. Belle Sickman, May 30, 1912, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
