Richard Bernhard Smith | |
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Born |
Honesdale,
Pennsylvania, U.S. | September 29, 1901
Died | September 29, 1935
Carbondale,
Pennsylvania, U.S. | (aged 34)
Era | 20th century |
Richard Bernhard Smith (September 29, 1901 – September 29, 1935) was an American composer who wrote the lyrics to the popular Christmas song " Winter Wonderland", which was composed by Felix Bernard.
Smith was born on September 29, 1901, in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, the son of Eliza (Brunig) and John H. Smith, a partner with a glass manufacturing plant. His family was Episcopalian. [1] He graduated Honesdale School in 1920 and attended Pennsylvania State College. Smith married Jean Connor, [2] of Scranton, on March 30, 1930. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1931. He succumbed to the disease on September 29, 1935, his thirty-fourth birthday, in Carbondale, Pennsylvania. He was buried in Dyberry Cemetery, Honesdale, Pennsylvania.