When James Arthur Schofield Smith was born on 14 November 1876, in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States, his father, George Browning Smith, was 33 and his mother, Harriet Schofield, was 28. He married Pauline Jeanett Bahr on 25 September 1916, in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States. He lived in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States in 1910 and North Bend, Coos, Oregon, United States in 1920. In 1910, at the age of 34, his occupation is listed as newspaper cartoonist in Idaho, United States. He died on 14 May 1935, in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 58.