William Wallace Smith served as a state senator from Pennsylvania after his umpiring career, both of which were mentioned in his
obituary in the Harrisburg Telegraph on Aug. 28, 1917. I found a photo of him in a story written just before his death in the
Aug. 27, 1917 Evening Public Ledger. Both of these articles appear to indicate Smith died on August 27, not August 25, as Retrosheet indicates.