Harry Dwight Smith
Harry Dwight Smith, prosecuting attorney for Greene county, former president of the council of the city of Xenia and former city solicitor, was born at Xenia, on April 20, 1879, son of Judge Horace L. and Mary A. (Jones) Smith, the former of whom is still living at Xenia, where for many years he has been engaged in the practice of the law and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, together with further details relating to the Smith family in Xenia. Judge Smith has two sons, the subject of this sketch having a brother. Commander Charles E. Smith, of the United States navy, further mention of whom also is made in this volume.
Reared in Xenia, Harry D. Smith was graduated from the high school there in 1896 and then entered Antioch College, from which he was graduated in 1900 with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. In the meantime, under the preceptorship of his father, he had been giving attention to the preliminary study of law and upon leaving college entered the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and was graduated from that institution in 1903. Following his graduation Mr. Smith was admitted to the bar and straightway opened an ofiice for the practice of his profession in Xenia, where he since has been located. He is a Republican and during the year 1906-07 served as president of the city council and in 1908 was elected city solicitor, which latter position he held until his election to the office of prosecuting attorney for this judicial district in the fall of 1916. Mr. Smith entered upon the duties of this latter office on January I, 1917, and is now serving in that capacity, his term of office to expire on January I, 1919.
On June 23, 1904, Harry D. Smith was united in marriage to Mae Prugh, of Xenia, daughter of V. H. and Mary (Conner) Prugh, both now deceased, and to this union two children have been born, Horace H., born in October, 1905, and Mary Carolyn, August, 1907. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Presbyterian church.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918