Lura Eugenie Brown Smith

Lura Eugenie Brown Smith (June 23, 1854/64 – April 11, 1935) was an American journalist, newspaper editor, and author. She wrote short stories, poems, and miscellany, and did editorial work in newspapers. She was the author of Victory's Divorcement (with Alice French, 1891) and On the Track and Off the Train, and the editor of The Autocrat of Arkansas (1883).

Early life Lura Eugenie Brown was born in Rochester, New York, June 23, 1854 or June 23, 1864.

Her father, Leverett Russell Brown, died in Little Rock, Arkansas, in January, 1891. Her grandfather, Joseph Patterson Brown, was a citizen of Windsor, New York, where he married Lura M. Russell. Smith's mother was Catherine Anne Ostrander, a member of the Knickerbocker community in New York state. Smith was the second of a family of four children.

Career Smith removed to Little Rock, in 1883,

With her husband, Sidney Smith, she was co-editor and owner of the Northwestern Freemason.

With Octave Thanet, Smith was co-author of Victory's Divorcement (New York, 1891). She contributed "The Autocrat of Arkansas" to the Arkansas Press in 1890, which was later published in book form. she worked in the interest of the Welfare, Protection, and Rescue Association. Smith was also an honorary member of the Arkansas Press Association.

Personal life

In Little Rock, on April 20, 1892, she married Sidney Smith (1857–1930), editor of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Masonic Review, His first jobs were that of telegraph operator and assistant station agent at Sac City, Iowa, for the Chicago & North Western Railroad. He was a member of the Iowa State Traveling Men's Association, a Mason, a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, a Past Junior Grand Warden of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Iowa, and a member of the Brotherhood of Elks. His parents were of ordinary size but an accident to Sidney's spine in infancy stunted his growth without causing any deformity, leaving him short, at in height.

In religion, Smith was Episcopalian. She favored woman suffrage.

Selected works Victory's Divorcement, with Alice French/Octave Thanet (1891) On the Track and Off the Train, by Lura E. Brown (1892)

Editor The Autocrat of Arkansas (1883)