About C. Alphonso Smith
Lived 1864 – 1924 (aged 60). C. Alphonso Smith was an American writer and scholar of English.
Charles Alphonso Smith (May 28, 1864 – June 13, 1924) was an American professor of English, college dean, philologist, and folklorist.
Life Smith was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. His parents were Jacob Henry Smith, and his second wife, Mary Kelly (Watson) Smith. Growing up in Greensboro, he was acquainted with William Sydney Porter, working then as a clerk, later to become the writer known as O. Henry. They were close friends.
Smith received his A.B. degree from Davidson College, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and in 1887 earned his M.A. from the same institution. He received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1893. His dissertation was titled The Order of Words in Anglo Saxon Prose.
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American writer (1864–1924)
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C. Alphonso Smith was born on 28 May 1864 in Greensboro.
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C. Alphonso Smith died on 13 June 1924 in Annapolis.
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C. Alphonso Smith was a writer and scholar of English.
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C. Alphonso Smith was American.
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