C. Alphonso Smith

C. Alphonso Smith was an American Professor of English, college dean, philologist, and folklorist.

Smith was born in Greensboro, NC. His parents were Jacob Henry Smith, and his second wife, Mary Kelly Smith. Growing up in Greensboro, he was acquainted William Sydney Porter, working then as a clerk, later to become the writer known as O. Henry. They were close friends. OnNov 1905 Smith married Susan McGee Heck, with whom he had two sons and one daughter. He died unexpectedly while on the faculty at Annapolis.

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