{"id":2151,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2151"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"smith, eugene allen, 1841-1927 ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2151","title":{"rendered":"SMITH, EUGENE ALLEN, 1841-1927"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Geologist, educator. Born– Oct. 27, 1841, in Prattville, Ala. Parents– Samuel Parrish and Adelaide Julia Smith. Married– Jane Henry Meredity Garland on July 10, 1872. Children– Five. Education– University of Alabama, A.B.; University of Heidelberg, Germany, A.M., Ph.D.; also attended Universities of Berlin and Goettingen. Served in Confederate Army 1862-1865; assistant in Geological Survey at University of Mississippi, 1868-1877; professor of chemistry and mineralogy at University of Alabama, 1871-1873; state geologist for Alabama, 54 years beginning 1873; president of Geological Society of America in 1913. Elected to Alabama Hall of Fame, 1953. <\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1. <\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Concerning Oil and Gas in Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama, 1917. <\/p>\n

A General Description of the Climate, and of the Geological, Topographical and Agricultural Features of the Cotton-Producing States. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1884. <\/p>\n

Geological Map of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Geological Survey of Alabama, 1904. <\/p>\n

Geological Structure and Description of the Valley Regions adjacent to the Cahaba Coal Field. Montgomery, Ala.; Brown Printing Co., 1890. <\/p>\n

Geological Survey of Alabama; Report for the Years…. Montgomery, Ala.; W. D. Brown, 1873- (Title of the reports varies.) <\/p>\n

The Iron Ores of Alabama. Salem; s.n., 1879. <\/p>\n

List of the Ores and Minerals of Industrial Importance, Occurring in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.; W. D. Brown, 1884. <\/p>\n

Mineral Industries of Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Printing Co., 1925. <\/p>\n

Oil Prospecting in Mobile County. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama, 1917. <\/p>\n

On the Phosphates and Marls of Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.; Smith, Alfred & Co., 1892. <\/p>\n

Outline of the Geology of Alabama. Mobile, Ala.; Mobile Register, 1878. <\/p>\n

Sketch of the Geology of Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.; Roberts & Sons, 1892. <\/p>\n

Tertiary and Cretaceous Strata of the Tuscaloosa, Tombigbee, and Alabama Rivers. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1887. <\/p>\n

The Underground Water Resources of Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.; Brown Printing Co., 1907. <\/p>\n

Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Cement Resources of Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.; Brown Printing Co., 1904. <\/p>\n

Index to the Mineral Resources of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Geological Survey of Alabama, 1904. <\/p>\n

A Preliminary Report on the Upper Gold Belt of Alabama, in the Counties of Cleburne, Randolph, Clay, Talladega, Elmore, Coosa, and Tallapoosa. Montgomery, Ala.; J. P. Armstrong, 1896. <\/p>\n

Report on the Cahaba Coal Field. Montgomery, Ala.; The Brown Printing Co., 1890. <\/p>\n

Report on the Geology of the Coastal Plain of Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.; Brown Printing Co., 1894. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: Geologist, educator. Born– Oct. 27, 1841, in Prattville, Ala. Parents– Samuel Parrish and Adelaide Julia Smith. Married– Jane Henry Meredity Garland on July 10, 1872. Children– Five. Education– University of Alabama, A.B.; University of Heidelberg, Germany, A.M., Ph.D.; also attended Universities of Berlin and Goettingen. Served in Confederate Army 1862-1865; assistant in Geological Survey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}