NEW YORK REPORTS COURT OF APPEALS STATE OF NY 1895- 1900 E. H. SMITH-16 books

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Edmund H. Smith
STATE REPORTER: 1895 - 1900
Edmund Smith was born on September 27, 1848, the eldest son of
Supreme Court Justice James C. Smith, who is considered a founder of
the Republican party. Smith attended Canandaigua Academy from 1860
to 1865 and was admitted to the bar in New York City in November
1871. In the spring of 1873, he was appointed assistant to Colonel Bliss,
United States District Attorney, but resigned due to illness. He accepted
a faculty position at Hobart College, Geneva, in September 1874. Smith
worked in the New York Court of Appeals Clerk’s Office in 1892, and in
1895 he became State Reporter, publishing 16 volumes of the New York
Reports by 1900, when he left the office to administer his father’s estate.
His sister, Emily Smith Putnam, was in the first graduating class of Bryn
Mawr College, and was later to become Dean of Barnard College. Smith
married the former Elizabeth Hopkins Bradford on December 27, 1876.
He died in Canandaigua, at the age of 67, on October 18, 1915
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