Bio of SMITH, Hassell Morgan (b.1872), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol II, pg 349-350
HASSELL MORGAN SMITH
Hassell Morgan Smith, as vice president, treasurer and general manager of the
Cedar Lake Ice Company, is connected with one of the important and extensive
enter­prises of this character in Minneapolis. To control a business of this
volume requires marked executive ability, thorough understanding of the trade
conditions and a keen insight into future possibilities and opportunities. Mr.
Smith fully meets all these requirements and the success of the undertaking is
attributable in large measure to his efforts and direction. He is a native son
of Michigan, his birth having occurred in Charlotte, August 29, 1872, his
parents being Thomas Jefferson and Elizabeth L. (Morgan) Smith, who were natives
of the state of New York but became pioneer residents of Michigan, where the
father was identified with manufacturing interests. In 1870 he came to
Minneapolis and here engaged in the manufacture of a patent flour barrel, which
is still in use. Both he and his wife have passed away.
Hassell Morgan Smith was but four years of age when he came to Minneapolis with
his mother in 1876, the father having located here six years before and built a
factory for his business. The family home, however, was not established until
six years later and two years after his advent in this city H. M. Smith became a
pupil in the public schools, passing through consecutive grades until well
grounded in those branches of learning which constitute the basis of advancement
and business success in later life. When his textbooks were put aside he secured
a position as bookkeeper with the Pioneer Fuel Company, with which he remained
for two years. But ambitious to engage in business on his own account he then
turned his attention to paving and executed contracts of that character through
the succeeding two years. In 1900 he became associated with the Barber Asphalt
Company as their western financial manager at Minneapolis and was so engaged
until 1910, since which time he has been associated with the Cedar Lake Ice
Company. He entered the corporation as treasurer and in April, 1921, upon the
death of John B. Robbins, he was made general manager, assum­ing the duties of
that position in addition to the duties of treasurer and is now also vice
president. The company has three large ice houses situated outside of the city
of Minneapolis and two artificial ice manufacturing plants with a capacity of
two hundred and twenty-five tons per day, while the plant's capacity for natural
ice is about one hundred and forty thousand tons. This is the largest ice
company operating in the Northwest, employing about four hundred people. The
high regard for and implicit confidence which Mr. Robbins had in Mr. Smith is
indicated in the fact that he was named as the executor of the former's estate.
It would seem that the management of a great ice industry would alone require
the entire attention and activities of an individual, but aside from his work in
that connection and his service as executor of the Robbins estate, Mr. Smith is
the secretary, treasurer and one of the directors of the Minnesota Crushed Stone
Company and also of the St. Paul Crushed Stone Com­pany. His cooperation is
regarded as a most valuable asset in the successful manage­ment of any
enterprise with which he becomes connected and the scope of his accomplishments
at once establishes him as one of the foremost and representative business men
of the city.
On the 15th of January, 1900, Mr. Smith was married to Miss Bertha V. Kittman of
Minneapolis, and they have one son, Hassell Douglas. Mr. H. M. Smith largely
finds his recreation in baseball, fishing and hunting, turning to those sports
from the onerous duties of business and thus maintaining an even balance in his
life. He is also well known in club circles, having membership in the St.
Anthony Falls Commercial Club, in the Minneapolis Athletic Club, in the Rotary
Club, in the Automobile Club and in the Interlachen Country Club. Two of these,
aside from their social nature, have become potent forces in bringing about
business development in the city and the in­troduction of higher standards of
civic service and of municipal adornment, and in all the projects thus put forth
Mr. Smith is deeply and helpfully interested.