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Orlando Jay Smith a Multifaceted Journalist and Reformer
Major Orlando Jay Smith, once a Union cavalry officer and later Chicago Express editor, built the American Press Association into the largest U.S. syndicate. A lover of forests, democracy, and science, he mentored writers like O Henry, London, and Tarkington, while shaping open-government ideas and immortality debates.
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Orlando Jay Smith
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American Press Association
James A. Edgerton
Chicago Express
United States
India
England
Robert G. Ingersoll
William J. Bryan
Albert Shaw
Review of Reviews
Major Smith
Indiana
Sleepy
Charleston
Smith
New England
Terre Haute
Ind
Asbury College
de Pauw University
Leutenant
Shenandoah Valley
Kentucky
Rich
Mississippi
the Mail
Vigorins
Turres
Express
Hicase
America
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Eugene Field
Chicago
John Clark Ridpath
O. Henry
Peter Finley Dunne
Dooley
Bill Nye
M. Quad
Murat Halstead
T. de Witt Talmage
Champ Clark
New York Journal
Eliza Archard Conner
H. Addington Bruce
F. A. Mitchel
Richard Lloyd Jones
Lincoln Warm Association
Courtland Smith