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Smith, William Henry 1833-1896
Historian; a native of Indiana; educated in the common schools of the State and at the Indianapolis Academy; learned the printing trade, and was a reporter on an Indiana paper, and for some years the literary editor of the Cincinnati commercial gazette.
Among his publications are History of Indiana (2 volumes, 8vo, 1898), Reminiscences of American history; A history of Indiana during the Civil War, etc.
Journalist; born in Columbia county, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1833; educated in Ohio; became editor of a Cincinnati weekly paper in 1855; was active in recruiting troops and forwarding sanitary supplies during the Civil War; secretary of State of Ohio in 1864-68.
He then founded the Cincinnati Evening chronicle.
Later he managed the affairs of the Western Associated Press, with headquarters in Chicago.
In 1883 he succeeded in uniting the Western Associated Press with the New York Associated Press, and became manager of the consolidated association.