Harry Gorin SMITH - 28 Mar 1885 - 7 Feb 1940
Mr. Harry Gorin Smith, 54, prominent Louisville banker and native of Glasgow, died at his home in
Louisville Wednesday night, February 7, around midnight where he had been critically ill for the past few
days. Death was attributed to uremic poisioning and heart trouble.
Funeral services were conducted at the Pearson Funeral Home in Louisville Friday, at 10 a.m. The
remains were brought to the Glasgow cemetery where burial took place at 3 p.m. Both Glasgow banks
closed for the funeral.
Mr. Smith is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lyda G. Smith, a daughter, Miss Gwynne Smith, Louisville; two
sisters, Mrs. Ernest Warder and Mrs. V. R. Jones, Glasgow; three brothers, Messrs Howard B. Smith,
Springfield, Tenn., Attorney E. H Smith and Malcolm Smith, both of Glasgow.
A son of the late W. B. and Annie Huggins Smith, he was born March 28, 1885 and received his
elementary education in the city schools here. He later attended the University of Kentucky, Kentucky
Military Institute and a private school at New Haven, Conn.
Mr. Smith began his business career as assistant cashier of the old First National Bank in this city, of
which his father, the late Mr. W. B. Smith, was president. He later moved to Louisville and was elected
secretary of the State Bankers Association, serving this body for twenty years. After resigning this
position, he became connected with the State Federal Housing Administration and at the time of his
death was vice president of the Liberty Bank and Trust Co., of Louisville.
Mr. Smith has been very active in social and civic circles since becoming a resident of Louisville, and
was president of the Audubon Club there. Possessed of a pleasing personality, he was studious, kind and
clever and was one of the most popular and best liked men that ever left Glasgow.
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