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Yeremya Kenley Smith

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Yeremya Kenley Smith

Birth
Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, USA
Death
9 Sep 1969 (aged 81)
Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York, USA
Burial
Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, USA Add to Map
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Graduated from Tulane University in 1904.

Friend of writer Ernest Hemingway in 1910's and 1920's.

Wealthy advertising man who was victim of sensational crime in 1924 when Wanda Stopa (Memorial ID# 133461090), infatuated lover with legal credentials and literary ambitions, broke into Smith's Chicago area home and tried to shoot his wife. Their caretaker, Henry Manning, was killed and Stopa poisoned herself after fleeing to Detroit. Hemingway commented on shooting in letter to Smith's brother, Bill.

Resided or worked in Pine Plains, New York ca. 1960.

Cremated at Oakwood Cemetery in Troy, New York in early September 1969.

Various documents list year of birth as 1885 (Social Security Death Index), 1886 (1900 federal census), 1887 (World War I draft card, 1926 passenger list), or 1888 (World War II draft card). The book Ernest Hemingway, Selected Letters, 1917-1961 (2003) states year of birth as 1887.
Graduated from Tulane University in 1904.

Friend of writer Ernest Hemingway in 1910's and 1920's.

Wealthy advertising man who was victim of sensational crime in 1924 when Wanda Stopa (Memorial ID# 133461090), infatuated lover with legal credentials and literary ambitions, broke into Smith's Chicago area home and tried to shoot his wife. Their caretaker, Henry Manning, was killed and Stopa poisoned herself after fleeing to Detroit. Hemingway commented on shooting in letter to Smith's brother, Bill.

Resided or worked in Pine Plains, New York ca. 1960.

Cremated at Oakwood Cemetery in Troy, New York in early September 1969.

Various documents list year of birth as 1885 (Social Security Death Index), 1886 (1900 federal census), 1887 (World War I draft card, 1926 passenger list), or 1888 (World War II draft card). The book Ernest Hemingway, Selected Letters, 1917-1961 (2003) states year of birth as 1887.


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