This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Colby, Smith Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wQJ.2ACEB/701 Message Board Post: Miami Herald, The (FL) - November 15, 1989 HAROLD COLBY SMITH RETIRED PUBLISHER Harold Colby Smith, a retired publisher, died Monday of cancer at his Key Biscayne home. He was 86. The Clifton, Ill., native moved in the 1930s to Massachusetts, where he worked as president and chairman of the board of Colonia Press Inc. for more than 40 years. He moved to his retirement home in Key Biscayne in 1969. In his spare time, Mr. Smith researched the history of his family, then combined his hobby with his professional interests by publishing a book in 1970 on his family genealogy: The Colby Family in Early America. "His family had been active in the Revolutionary War, and he wanted to find out more about it," said Maude Adams, his wife since 1930. He was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars and the Sons of the American Revolution. Mr. Smith's survivors include his wife; daughter Carolyn Davies Ochsner; and six grandchildren. A memorial service will be held in Massachusetts. The family request that donations be made in his memory to the American Cancer Society.