Olive White Smith

Alice Matilda "Olive" White Smith (December 25, 1846 - August 26, 1918) was an American writer and poet, best known in literature as Mrs. Clinton Smith.

Early life Alice Matilda "Olive" White was born in Clarendon, Vermont, on December 25, 1846. Her ancestors were among the early settlers of Vermont. Her father, Charles White, was a pioneer geologist and the discoverer of several of the Vermont marble quarries. Her childhood was passed among the Green Mountains. She grew up with a stern morality, tempered by a love of humanity, which led her in girlhood to be intelligently interested in the abolition of slavery.

They had six children: Charles Lynn Smith (1869-1875), Clifton Roberts Smith (1878-1923), Delmar White Smith (1874-1949, contracting builder in Manila), Harold Smith (1882-1967), Leon Neil Smith (1889-1936), Helena Mercy Smith (b. 1872) (wife of Prof. Charles J. Bullock of Harvard).

She died on August 26, 1918, and is buried with her husband at Foote Street Cemetery, Middlebury, under a beautiful monument.