Smith, Edmund Kirby

Smith, Edmund Kirby, Banker and Commissioner, of Shreveport, La. was born Feb. 25,1871, in Hernando, Miss. He was educated in public schools. In 1888 he entered the employ of the First National Bank of Orlando, Fla.; moved to Texarkana, Ark., and to Texas in 1894. He organized the State National Bank and State Savings and Trust Company; and since 1914 has been president of the Commercial National Bank of Shreveport, La. For three years he was Class A director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Texas, district number 11; and director of the Kansas City, Shreveport and Gulf Railway Company. In 1914 he was a member of the National Currency Association of Louisiana and Mississippi; was president of the Arkansas Bankers Association; is a member of the Louisiana Loan Commission and of the executive committee of the American Bankers Association. He is president of Shreveport Golf Club and the Country Club.
[Source: Herringshaw's American blue-book of biography: By Thomas William Herringshaw, American Publishers' Assoc.; Publ. 1919; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]