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William Smith  

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  • William Smith was born on March 23, 1769 in Churchill, Oxfordshire,England, the first son of five children of the village blacksmith. He had a meager formal education but had a natural curiosity concerning local rocks, fossils, and geography. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Smith, William (1769–1839)]

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