Ormond Gerald Smith

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title: "Ormond Gerald Smith" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["19th-century-american-newspaper-publishers-(people)", "american-pulp-magazine-publishers-(people)", "american-paperback-book-publishers-(people)", "1860-births", "1933-deaths", "harvard-university-alumni", "street-&-smith"] description: "President of Street & Smith" topic_path: "geography/united-states" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormond_Gerald_Smith" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary President of Street & Smith ::

Ormond Gerald Smith (August 30, 1860 – April 17, 1933) was the president of Street & Smith.

He was the youngest son of Mary Jellett Duff (1838 – c.1885) and Francis Shubael Smith I (1819–1887). Francis partnered with Francis Scott Street and started the publishing firm of Street & Smith. Ormond had the following siblings: Francis Shubael Smith II (1854–?); Cora A. Smith (1857–?) who married George H. Gould; and George Campbell Smith (1859–?). He graduated from Harvard University in 1883https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/4/archival_objects/1051659, and joined his father at Street & Smith after graduation. On December 25, 1899 Ormond married Grace Hewitt Pellett and they had one child: Gerald Hewitt Smith who attended Princeton University. Ormond was a member Society of the War of 1812, the St. Nicholas Society, and the Society of Colonial Wars. He died in 1933 in Manhattan.

References

• New York Times; April 18, 1933; "Ormond G. Smith, Publisher, Dead; President of Street & Smith and Founder of Many Popular Magazines".

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