William Henry Smith

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1833-12-01

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1896-07-27

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"William Henry Smith" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00019846, (accessed November 4, 2025).

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Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, journalist and politician. Columbiana County, New York, native. Son of William DeForest Smith. Married to Emeline "Emma" Reynolds Smith. Father of Emma A. Smith and Delavan Smith. Reporter in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1860. Editor of the Cincinnati Gazette. Private secretary for Governor John Brough in Ohio in 1863. Secretary of State for the State of Ohio from 1864 to 1868.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati Ward 15, p. 327.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago Ward 5, p. 162A.
"His Life Work Ended," Crestline Advocate (Crestline, OH), July 30, 1896, p. 6.
"The Late W.H. Smith," The Dayton Evening Herald (Dayton, OH), August 21, 1896, p. 7.
"Smith, William Henry," Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. V, eds. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (New York: Appleton, 1889), 596.
History of the Republican Party in Ohio, vol. 1, Joseph P. Smith, ed. (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1898), 195-197.
"William Henry Smith (1833-1896)," Find A Grave, Memorial 27220827, accessed May 8, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27220827.

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