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Smith, Charles Forster

educator, author, was born June 30, 1852, in Abbeville county, S. C. He graduated from the Wafford college, Harvard university, and Leipsic university. He has filled the chair of Greek in various institutions, and now fills that chair in the university of Wisconsin. He is the author of several books, and a number of philological and literary articles.

SMITH, CHARLES HENRY (Bill Arp), lawyer, journalist, author, was born June 15, 1826, in Lawrenceville, Ga. He is a lawyer and journalist of Rome, Ga., and well-known as a humorous contributor to The Atlanta Constitution. He is the author of Bill Arp's Letters; Bill Arp's Scrap Book; The Farm and the Fireside; A Side Show of the Southern Side of the War; and Georgia as a Colony and State in 1733-1893.

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