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Honorable Life of William Smith Nathan Jenkins Due November 9th Odd 1 William Smith was born in Churchill, Oxfordshire, England, on March 23, 1769.He was the son of an Oxfordshire blacksmith of farming stocks. His father left him when he was very young, he was raised by his father’s oldest brother. He didn’t get to attend a steady schooling as a child. As a child he collected fossils and rocks. WIlliam also surveyed and mapped out land. He trained under Edward Webb. William Smith earned a lot of achievements throughout his life. He found fossils and mapped geographic locations. During preliminary surveys for a proposed Somersetshire Coal Canal in 1793, Smith discovered that the strata outcropping in the northern part of the

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