CLASS OF 1877

Albert Kimball Smith died December 27, 1918, at his home in Springfield, Ohio, having been in failing health for a year past.

He was born in Cornish, N. H., May 18, 1857, his parents being Lafayette H. and Ruth E. (Chadbourne) Smith. He prepared for college at New London and Meriden, N. H. His fraternity was Kappa Kappa Kappa.

It was the usual thing for college men of his time who graduated without definite plans for a lifework to take up the study of law. The subject of this sketch followed the custom by entering a law office in Greenfield, Mass. He remained there with some interruptions until the spring of 1879. He had then decided that his inclination ran to medicine rather than law, and in the fall of 1879 he began the study of that profession in the office of Dr. H. F. Biggar of Cleveland, Ohio, and at Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College. In March, 1881, he received his diploma, and began practice with his former instructor. In May, 1882, he removed to Bellaire, Ohio, but in the spring of 1885 returned to Cleveland, and continued in practice there to 1889.

In the last year he removed to Muncie, Ind., and engaged in the manufacture of window glass, continuing in this business until 1901. For the following two years he was not actively engaged in business, but in August, 1903, he went to Springfield, Ohio, to take charge of the Miller Improved Gas Engine Company, of which he became secretary and treasurer. He succeeded in bringing this business to a highly prosperous condition, and won a fine reputation for ability and integrity.

Dr. Smith was married June 28, 1883, to Ella Louise, daughter of Charles H. and Matilda Over of Bellaire, Ohio, who died July 18, 1903. A second marriage was to Mabel, daughter of Leffard H. and Maria Louise Pursell of Springfield, November 12, 1910, who survives him. There were no children.