The Smoot family

The Smoot family traces its Alexandria business presence to J. H. D. Smoot Person J. H. D. Smoot Founder of the Alexandria lumber business that operated continuously for two hundred years under successive Smoot-family names: J.H.D. Smoot, W.A. Smoot, Smoot Lumber & Coal, Smoot … , the early-nineteenth-century lumber merchant, and continued through W. A. Smoot Person W. A. Smoot Successor at the Smoot lumber firm. Renamed the business W. A. Smoot & Co. and expanded into the planing-mill and millwork lines that would supply major Washington public … (W. A. Smoot & Co.), Lewis Egerton Smoot Person Lewis Egerton Smoot Spun off the coal, sand, and gravel arm of the family lumber business into a successful independent firm; namesake of the L. E. Smoot Memorial Library and associated philanthropies … (who spun off the coal/sand/gravel arm), and into Albert Smoot’s mid-twentieth-century stewardship of the lumber line ^[1] Source 1 ALXnow, 'Smoot Lumber yard closing,' 2023 Website .

The family’s combined operations dominated Alexandria’s industrial waterfront for more than a century, supplying coal and lumber to households, custom millwork to the U.S. Capitol and other federal buildings, and sand and gravel to regional construction projects. The lumber concern’s December 2023 closure ended a two-hundred-year continuous family operation; the various Smoot foundations and namesakes (including the L. E. Smoot Memorial Library) continue.