Biography
According to Lewis Allen Brown's 1909 biographical sketch of Smith,
- Langdon Smith was born in Kentucky Jan. 4, 1858 ... In boyhood he served in the Comanche and Apache wars as a trooper, his letters descriptive of these campaigns winning him his first newspaper position. Later he acted as a war correspondent during the extended fighting with the Sioux tribes.
Gardner, who consulted Who's Who In America 1906-7 adds that Smith went to school in Louisville, KY 1864-1872.
On February 12, 1894 Smith married Marie Antionette Wright, described as "a Louisville girl" and soon after went to Cuba, reporting for the New York Herald on the guerilla operations of Antonio Maceo Grajales. He later returned to Cuba, at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War (1898), reporting for the New York Journal. According to Brown,
- One of the first at the front, he was present at all the principal engagements, taking high rank as a war correspondent.
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