Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Delos G. 1970
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Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 21 Mar 1970

Former Resident Is Dead

Delos G. Smith, prominent Washington, D.C. attorney, died following surgery at
Bryn Mawr hospital in Bryn Mawr, Pa., March 20.  He was 76 at the time of his
death and was born December 9, 1893, the son of the late Kimbal R. Smith, Sr.,
and Mary Jane Welch Smith, at 229 East Washington, Ionia, the family home since
1872, now occupied by his nephew, Geer H. Smith, Judge of Probate.

He is survived by his wife Naomi Greenwood Smith, the daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Levi Greenwood of Muir, and two sons, Delos G. Smith, Jr., of Akron,
Ohio, and Robert L. Smith, of Newtown, Pa., and five grandchildren.

He graduated from Ionia high school in 1913 and attended and graduated from the
literary College of University of Michigan in 1917, and from University of
Michigan Law school in 1920.  

Following military service in World War I, he entered the practice of law with a
prominent Detroit law firm.  In 1924, he was appointed United States district
attorney for Eastern Michigan by President ??.  At the time of his appointment,
he was the youngest man in the history of the states to hold that office.  In
1932 he moved to Washington D.C., and was appointed junior counsel for the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation.  From 1933 to 1962, he was a partner in a
law firm there.

Throughout his life he was active in University of Michigan alumnae affairs and
was for many years, secretary of the Peninsular society of Alpha Delta Phi
Fraternity at Ann Arbor and in 1946 on the one hundredth anniversary of the
chapter at Ann Arbor, wrote a book concerning the fraternity.  He was a life
long student of American history and on occasions had some of his historical
writings published in Michigan newspapers.

Following cremation, the family will arrive in Ionia, March 24, and will be at
the Smith home at 229 East Washington street after 8 o’clock in the evening. 
Memorial services will be on March 25 at 11 o’clock at St. Johns Episcopal
Church, Ionia, and burial will be in the family lot at Highland Park cemetery. 
Funeral arrangements by the Boynton-Leddick funeral home.


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