SMITH, LAURA ALEXANDRINE: ?-1935.
Laura Alexandrine Smith was born in Waterloo, N. Y. , but spent most of her life in Indianapolis , where she wrote feature articles for the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS and the INDIANAPOLIS STAR. She also contributed poetry and essays to magazines. During the first World War she worked with the American Committee for Devastated France, and following the war she was Washington correspondent for the INDIANAPOLIS STAR for some years. She died in 1935.
Information from the Indianapolis Public Library.
- The Music of the Waters. A Collection of the
Sailors' Chanties, or Working Songs of the Sea, of All Maritime
Nations … London, 1888.
- Through Romany Songland. New
York, 1889.
