by Mike Sanfilippo

Born in Simsbury, Connecticut on October 28, 1873, Smith received his BA from Wesleyan in 1895 and an MA in 1897. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.
After graduation, Smith served as Assistant Librarian at Wesleyan and Assistant to the Secretary of the Faculty. He taught at Dickinson Seminary in Pennsylvania from 1897-98, and then went on to teach at several high schools in the Midwest, before going to China where he taught English at Tsing Hua College in Peking from 1911-24. He studied at Union Seminary and Teachers College, New York, 1915-16. He returned to the United Sates as an exchange professor at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, from 1924-25. He returned to China as a full professor at Tsing Hua University and taught there until 1929. He moved to Yenching University, Beijing, where he spent the next twelve years. From 1918-20, he was President of the North China Association of Teachers of English.

He married Grace Goodrich, of Peking, China, in June 1914. They had four children, one of whom died in infancy: Mary Dorothea (b. 1916), Chauncey Goodrich (d. 1921), Janet Barnard (b. 1920), and Ernest Ketcham (b.1922).

Smith died on May 9, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York.

 

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