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He was born on October 27, 1841 in Washington, Autauga County, Alabama, United States, the son of Samuel Parrish and Adelaide Julia (Allen) Smith, both of New England ancestry.
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He was born on October 27, 1841 in Washington, Autauga County, Alabama, United States, the son of Samuel Parrish and Adelaide Julia (Allen) Smith, both of New England ancestry.
His early training was obtained at a private school in Prattville, Alabama, but in 1856, at the age of fifteen, he entered the Central High School of Philadelphia where he remained until the autumn of 1859. The year following he entered the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, with advanced standing, graduating with the degree of A. B. in 1862. In 1865 he went to Europe and for the next three years was in attendance at various German universities, including Berlin, Gottingen, and Heidelberg, received from Heidelberg the degree of Ph. D. summa cum laude in 1868.
Throughout the Civil War he served as drill master and instructor in tactics at the University.
Returning to America in that year, he was appointed assistant professor of chemistry in the University of Mississippi, where he came under the influence of Professor Eugene W. Hilgard, from whom he apparently derived his first special interest in geology. In 1871 he was elected professor of chemistry and mineralogy in the University of Alabama, with the proviso that he was to devote such of his time as could be spared from his teaching to investigating the natural resources of the state.
He was appointed a state geologist in 1873, though with no immediate increase in salary. For forty years he also retained his University professorship, resigning it in 1913 to give his whole time to the survey. He was president of the Geological Society of America in 1913. Of the more than 100 titles given in his bibliography, many were the regular reports of progress of the survey; other papers worthy of mention are "The Iron Ores of Alabama, " in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1879); "The Iron Ores of Alabama in Their Geological Relations" (Mineral Resources of the United States, 1882, 1883); "Physicogeographical and Agricultural Features of the State of Alabama, " in Report on Cotton Production in the United States, being vol. VI (1884) of the Reports of the Tenth Census; On the Phosphates and Marls of Alabama (1892), a bulletin of the state survey.
To the study of the coastal region he gave most of his personal energies after 1880, noteworthy papers in this field being "The Post-Eocene Formations of the Coastal Plain of Alabama" (American Journal of Science, April 1894); Report on the Geology of the Coastal Plain of Alabama (1894), published by the Alabama survey; and "On Some Post-Eocene and Other Formations of the Gulf Region of the United States".
His most original contribution was perhaps a short paper, "Underthrust Folds and Faults, " published in the American Journal of Science for April 1893.
Smith died in Tuscaloosa.
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Smith was modest and never thought of personal gain. He was of slight stature and build, wiry, and very active both physically and mentally.
Smith was married, July 10, 1872, to Jane Henry Meredith Garland, daughter of Landon Cabell Garland, a professor at the University of Mississippi and subsequently first chancellor of Vanderbilt University. they had three sons.