About Eugene Allen Smith
Lived 1841 – 1927 (aged 85). Eugene Allen Smith was an American botanist, geologist, university teacher and explorer.
Eugene Allen Smith (October 27, 1841 – September 7, 1927) was an American geologist. After serving in the American Civil War, he became the Alabama state geologist in 1873 and president of the Geological Society of America in 1913.
Biography He was born in the (now former) town of Washington, Alabama, in 1841, the son of Samuel Parrish Smith and his wife Adelaide Julia Allen.
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Who was Eugene Allen Smith?
American geologist (1841-1927)
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Eugene Allen Smith was born on 27 October 1841 in Washington.
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Eugene Allen Smith died on 7 September 1927 in Tuscaloosa.
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Eugene Allen Smith was a botanist, geologist, university teacher and explorer.
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Eugene Allen Smith was American.
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