The Iron Ores of Alabama by Eugene Allen Smith

The Iron Ores of Alabama by Eugene Allen Smith

Eugene Allen Smith

1841-1927

Eugene Allen Smith was born in Prattville, Alabama. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Alabama, graduated with a master's degree and doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and also attended universities in Berlin and Goettingen. Smith served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He went on to become the assistant in Geological Survey at the University of Mississippi from 1868 to 1877 and professor of chemistry and mineralogy at the University of Alabama from 1871 to 1873. Smith was also state geologist for Alabama for 54 years beginning in 1873, and he became president of the Geological Society of America in 1913. Smith passed away in 1927. He was posthumously elected to the Alabama Hall of Fame in 1953.

Alabama Authors of the 19th & 20th Centuries, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, http://alabamaauthors.org

1879

The Iron Ores of Alabama. Salem; sn, 1879.

AL Book Collection

Smith, Eugene Allen, “The Iron Ores of Alabama by Eugene Allen Smith,” Alabama Authors of the 19th & 20th Centuries, accessed November 8, 2026, https://alabamaauthors.org/items/show/24703.