Francis Marion Smith - Other Accomplishments

Other Accomplishments

Smith married Mary Rebecca Thompson (Mollie) and settled in Oakland, California in 1881 where in 1896 he acquired an estate and constructed a mansion, across the street from the MacArthur and Park Blvd. location of Oakland High School's current campus, where he lived until 3 years prior to his death in 1931. After Mollie died in 1905 at age 55, he remarried in 1906 to Evelyn Kate Ellis, a Shelter Island socialite.