[3] Shortly after its founding, the Association relocated to New York City, with offices at 32 Vesey Street.
[6] In February 1909, Dr. Albert Shaw wrote about Smith and the American Press Association in The American Review of Reviews stating: "The greatest single educational influence of the United States is the country newspaper.
And more than other man Major Smith made it possible for country newspapers to provide their readers with a fresh and accurate statement of the news of the world at large, of the country as a whole, and of their State or section, while also enabling them to keep abreast of progress in science, art, literature, and all things humanizing and progressive.
He perceived with great clearness the opportunity for cooperative effort in the careful editing and economical production of newspapers: and he was able to give effect to his ideas so successfully as to have made him one of the great leaders in the fireside education of the masses of the plain people of America, most of whom still live in villages or upon farms.
[10][11] Bankruptcy 1917 — The American Press Association, a West Virginia corporation organized in 1906 as a subsidiary of the New York association, filed a voluntary petition for bankruptcy on December 3, 1917, in the New York federal court.