| Ellsworth P. Smith | ||
| Birth Date: August 25,1895 |
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| Death Date: 1996 Artist Gallery |
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| Ellsworth P. Smith was born August 25, 1895 at 1216 Cherry Avenue, Southeast in Canton, Ohio. His home was a part of the Barnett Hotel, a structure that stood on the corner of Tuscarawas Street East and Cherry Street South.
At the age of nineteen, Smith decided to study art and enrolled in the Will H. Chandlee School of Art in Washington D. C. for three months. During World War I, Smith entertained troops in France as part of a minstrel show. He became employed at the Hoover Company which lasted for 40 years (1920-1960); in his third year at Hoover he was promoted to art director.
After the war, Smith married Ernestine Strock, a woman he personally titled “Miss America”. They had two children, Lowell and Barbara. Lowell followed his father’s lead and became interested in the arts and is a member of the American Watercolor Society. Barbara Smith Hilbish is a musician in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
After the passing of his wife, Ernestine, who was a musician, Smith was encouraged by his family to write a memoir reflecting his life as a little boy born on South Cherry Street in Canton, Ohio. At the age of 97, he began a year-long writing effort that resulted in the manuscript, My Story.
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