Albert K Smiley

• American

Identical twin brothers, Alfred H, and Albert K Smiley were born in Vassalboro, Maine in 1828. After a career in education as both teachers and administrators, the brothers engaged upon joint hotel enterprises in New York State in 1870. Albert K Smiley was appointed by President Hayes to the Board of Indian Commissioners in 1879. He initiated and sponsored the first Lake Mohawk Conference which then became an annual meeting with published reports for the purpose of dealing with Indian, and later, negro and U S dependency inhabitant problems. Smiley also worked with the movement for world peace and instituted another series of discussions in 1895, known as the Lake Mohank Conferences on International Arbitration, He was also the proprietor of Lake Mohank Mountain Houses in New York. - NRHP, 9 November 1976