This collection contains a notebook kept Alphonso Smith in September 1849 while a student at Washington College. The notebook contains Smith's recording of Professor George D. Armstrong's "Lectures on General Chemistry." The notebook includes 59 lectures on 86 pages, as well as folk art sketches on the front and rear endpages and pastedowns. Smith also inscribed "Dr. Samuel U. Holt alias 'Lazybones.'"
Alphonso Smith Lectures on General Chemistry Notebook (RG 62.0074), Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.
Alphonso Smith was born the second son of Samuel R. Smith on May 17, 1825. He attended Washington College during the 1849-1850 school year. He became the editor of the LEXINGTON GAZETTE in Summer 1853. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, Smith became a member of the 27th Virginia Regiment. He was wounded at the Battle of Port Republic, and died on July 8, 1862 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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