Background
Smyth, Winfield Scott was born on November 22, 1872 in Cazenovia, New York, United States. Son of Winfield Scott and Lavinia Espey (Lincolnshire) Smyth.
Smyth, Winfield Scott was born on November 22, 1872 in Cazenovia, New York, United States. Son of Winfield Scott and Lavinia Espey (Lincolnshire) Smyth.
Student Stanford, 1893-1895, University of Chicago, 1896.
Foreign language agent Doctorate. C. Heath & Company, publications, Boston, Massachusetts, 1896-1898. Assistant manager Chicago office same company, 1898-1910, treasurer, 1910-1928, vice president, 1922-1927, president 1927-1937, honorary chairman, since 1937.
Mason.
Married Joan Maude Slote, November 25, 1898. Children: Winfield Scott (deceased), Beatrice Slote (Mistress Gerald Irving Carper), Lavinia Georgie (Mistress Edmund Lee Gamble), John Scott.