Henry Justin Smith
Henry Justin Smith (June 19, 1875 – February 9, 1936) was managing editor of the Chicago Daily News.
Smith was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Justin A. and Mary L. Smith. In 1899, he married his cousin, Katherine Augusta Smith (1874–1940).
In 1934, he published a collection of three essays titled It's The Way It's Written. The addresses were suggested as supplementary reading for any course in journalism, or as an authentic picture of the newspaper world for readers in general.{{Citation needed|date=May 2007}} He also wrote the novel Poor Devil (1929).
Smith died in Evanston, Illinois, of pneumonia.
References
- {{cite news |title=HENRY SMITH DIES; EDITOR Ibl CHICAGO |newspaper=The New York Times |date=1936-02-10 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/02/10/archives/henry-smith-dies-editor-ibl-chicago-executive-of-the-daily-news.html |access-date=2008-04-12}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.newberry.org/collections/FindingAids/smithhj/SmithHJ.html |title=Inventory of the Henry Justin Smith Papers, 1912–1980, bulk 1912–1935 |publisher=The Newberry Library |access-date=2008-04-12}}
- {{cite magazine |title=New Chicago |date=1931-12-07 |magazine=Time |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,930454,00.html?iid=chix-sphere |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091021123016/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,930454,00.html?iid=chix-sphere |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-10-21}}
External links
- [https://archives.newberry.org/repositories/2/resources/250 Henry Justin Smith papers] at Newberry Library
- {{Wikisource author-inline|Henry Justin Smith}}
External links
- [https://archive.org/details/oscarwildediscov0000lewi Oscar Wilde Discovers America 1882] free full text at Internet Archive.
- [https://legamus.eu/blog/?p=1071 Oscar Wilde Discovers America 1882] public domain audiobook at Legamus.
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