Robert Keating Smith

Background

Smith, Robert Keating was born on August 2, 1865 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of George Robert Keating and Anna Amelia (Gooch) Smith.

Education

Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute Technology, 1889. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1893. Bachelor of Divinity, Episcopal Theological School, 1895.

Career

Deacon, 1895, priest, 1896, Protestant Episcopal Church. Rector Saint Paul’s Church, Kansas City, Missoury, 1896-1901. Assistant Grace Church, Newton, Massachusetts, 1901-1906.

Rector Church of Atonement, Westfield, Massachusetts, 1906-1927.

With Department of Foreign Born, National Council Protestant Episcopal Church, New York, since 1927. Civilian chaplain, Camp Bartlett, Westfield, 1917.

Visitor from Protestant Episcopal Church to Czechoslovak Church, 1920, 23, assistant chaplain International Boy Scout Camp, London, July 1920. Director Westfield branch Massachusetts Society Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Achievements

• Robert Keating Smith has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Mason. Collaborator with William F. Clapp of R. K. Smith and West. F. Clapp collection of North.E. mollusks in Agassiz Museum, Harvard.

Connections

Married Bertha Helena Wiles, June 17, 1896. Children: Mabel Wiles, Helen Lord.

Father:

George Robert Keating Smith

Mother:

Anna Amelia (Gooch) Smith

Spouse:

Bertha Helena Wiles

child:

Helen Lord Smith

child:

Mabel Wiles Smith