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).

Henry Justin Smith

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.

Henry Justin Smith

Smith died in Evanston, Illinois, of pneumonia.

Henry Justin Smith

References

External links

Henry Justin Smith papers at Newberry Library

External links

Oscar Wilde Discovers America 1882 free full text at Internet Archive. Oscar Wilde Discovers America 1882 public domain audiobook at Legamus.

1875 births

1936 deaths

American newspaper editors

Chicago Daily News people

Deaths from pneumonia in Illinois

Writers from Chicago

Historians of American media