Smith, Homer S.

Submitted by Mike Miller

Homer S. Smith is one of the prominent insurance men in the South. He helped organize and for many years has been especially identified With the Pan-American Life Insurance Company of New Orleans, a Louisiana institution with a notable record of growth and prosperity, a prosperity that is turned to the benefit of the home state, since a large part of the income of the company is invested in Louisiana. Mr. Smith is the manager for the northern part of the state, with headquarters at Shreveport.

He was born in Canton, Georgia, March 18, 1881 and has been in business since early manhood, coming to Louisiana in 1902, he located in Concordia Parish, where he had his home for several years.

The Pan-American Life Insurance Company of New Orleans was organized in 1912, and is the youngest of about two-score companies doing business in Louisiana, and yet only three other such companies wrote a larger amount of insurance during 1923 than the Pan-American. It also stands fifth in volume of business in force in the State of Louisiana.

Mr. Smith for twelve years has been one of the bulwarks of the company in expanding its business in Louisiana. He established the Shreveport office in 1920, and is the executive in charge of the company's affairs in the northern half of the state. His offices are in the Giddens-Lane Building.

Mr. Smith is a Knight Templar, a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. By his marriage to Miss Sarah Gillespie, of Vidalia, Louisiana, he has one son, Albert Smith.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 134, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.