Henry Justin Smith (June 19, 1875 – February 9, 1936) was managing editor of the ''

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''. Smith was born in

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, 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

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, or as an authentic picture of the newspaper world for readers in general. Smith died in

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, of pneumonia.

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Henry Justin Smith papers
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''Oscar Wilde Discovers America 1882''
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