 The line later became the title of an essay about this "one-poem poet" written by Martin Gardner.According to Lewis Allen Brown's 1909 biographical sketch of Smith,

Gardner, who consulted "Who's Who In America 1906–07" adds that Smith went to school in Louisville, KY, 1864–1872.On February 12, 1894 Smith married Marie Antionette Wright, described as "a Louisville girl" and soon after went to Cuba, reporting for the "New York Herald" on the guerilla operations of Antonio Maceo Grajales.