Wellington Smith

Later life

Smith was a delegate to the Chicago Republican National Convention in 1880, when they nominated James A. Garfield for president.

Smith was a personal friend of the presidents of the United States William McKinley and Abraham Lincoln, whom he knew intimately and visited several times at the White House in Washington, D.C. Smith was a member of the Home Market Club of Boston, cofounded by Gov. Eben Sumner Draper, president of the Greylock Mills Company of Adams, president of the Boston Paper Trade Association, board director of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company, president of the Derby Mills Paper Company, member of the Evening Star lodge of the Freemasons of Lee, and a member of the town's Congregational Church. Their New York office was at 18 Beekman Street, Manhattan, close to the Temple Court Building. He was married to Mary Clark Shannon on June 19, 1861, at the beginning of the American Civil War. The couple were also friends of the Vanderbilts, including Alfred G. Vanderbilt of The Breakers, Newport, who gave them presents at their wedding.