A. E. Smyser
A. E. Smyser, assistant general manager of the La Belle Iron Works, at Steubenville, O., of which city he has been a resident for seven busy years, was born at Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1873. When he was four years old his parents removed to Minnesota and there he was reared.
Mr. Smyser was afforded excellent educational advantages and after graduating from the Shattuck Military Academy, at Faribault, Minn., and having shown decided aptitude for mechanics, he was sent to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Boston, Mass., where he was graduated in mechanical engineering, in 1896, receiving his B. S. degree, and after two years of work took a post graduate course in mining and mettallurgy and in 1898 received his degree of M. S. Mr. Smyser was connected with the American Steel Casting Company of Chester, Pa., from July, 1898 until May, 1899, when he was sent to take charge of the Pittsburgh plant and remained there until 1900, when he became assistant superintendent for the Carnegie Steel Company at Duquesne, having charge of the open hearth department, where he continued until 1903 and then came to the La Belle Iron Works as superintendent of the open hearth department, and in February, 1905, he was advanced to be assistant general manager of the whole plant. He is one of the stockholders in this concern and has other interests. His standing in his profession is very high.
In September, 1901, Mr. Smyser was married to Miss Leila Hall Palmer, of Pittsburgh, and they have two children: Helen Frances and Eugene Palmer. Mr. and Mrs. Smyser are members of the Shady Side Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh, and he is identified with the Steubenville Y. M. C. A. and the Country Club.
20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910