Frank Seeley Smith Jr., son of Frank and Edythe Edith Russell Seymour Smith, was born in East Norwalk (Fairfield County), Connecticut on September 29, 1912. The 1920 and 1930 censuses show the Smith family living in Yonkers, New York. In 1935, Frank Smith married Jean Adele Hammond (1912-2004); the couple had at least two children. By 1940, the Smiths were living in Richmond, Virginia, where Frank Smith was employed as a sales clerk for a metals manufacturer. According to his obituary, Smith founded the Louisville chapter of Big Brothers and Sisters and served as a Scouts BSA scoutmaster; he was a member of the Kiwanis Club, Katy Railroad Historical Society (Fort Scott, Kansas), Missouri-Pacific Historical Society, Bluegrass Railroad Museum (Versailles, Kentucky), and the Kentucky Rail Museum. A railroad artist, Smith wrote and illustrated A Katy Look: Over the Shoulder of Frank Smith, devoted to the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (aka "Katy") Railroad. Smith also served for a time as a writer for West Texas Business Magazine. Frank and Jean Hammond Smith divorced in 1979; the following year, he married Claire Justine. Frank S. Smith died in Louisville, Kentucky on April 15, 1998.