Ormond Gerald Smith

American publisher
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAmerican publisher
PlacesUnited States of America
wasPublisher
Work fieldBusiness Journalism
Gender
Male
Birth30 August 1860
Death17 April 1933 (aged 72 years)
Star signVirgo
Education
Harvard University
The details

Biography

Ormond Gerald Smith (August 30, 1860 – April 17, 1933) was the president of Street & Smith.

He was the youngest son of Mary Jellett Duff (1838 – c.1885) and Francis Shubael Smith I (1819–1887). Francis partnered with Francis Scott Street and started the publishing firm of Street & Smith. Ormond had the following siblings: Francis Shubael Smith II (1854–?); Cora A. Smith (1857–?) who married George H. Gould; and George Campbell Smith (1859–?). He graduated from Harvard University in 1883, and joined his father at Street & Smith after graduation. On December 25, 1899 Ormond married Grace Hewitt Pellett and they had one child: Gerald Hewitt Smith who attended Princeton University. Ormond was a member Society of the War of 1812, the St. Nicholas Society, and the Society of Colonial Wars. He died in 1933 in Manhattan.

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