Ellison Adger Smyth Jr.

Ellison Adger Smyth Jr. (October 26, 1863 – August 19, 1941) was an American professor of zoology, scientific collector, and college football coach.

Smyth was the son of James Adger Smyth, who later became Mayor of Charleston, and the grandson of Thomas Smyth, minister of Charleston's Second Presbyterian Church. He studied at Princeton College, Columbia College, and the University of Virginia. Smyth worked as a clerk in a law firm before taking up a position as adjunct professor of biology at the University of South Carolina in 1889. He became a professor of biology at Virginia Tech in 1891.

Smyth discovered and named two new species of butterflies and moths, and was a member of the New York Entomological Society. He was also an elder in the Presbyterian church in Blacksburg, Virginia.

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