Edmund Kirby Smith, USMA 1845

16 May 1824 --- 28 March 1893

Taught at the University of the South, 1875-

There is a bronze statue in the National Statuary Hall Collection

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/print/SS/fsm9.html

 

Genealogy:

His grandson Edmund Kirby Smith (#11342) is a graduate.

References:

Arney, Chris, West Point's Scientific 200: Celebration of the Bicentennial. Biographies of 200 of West Point's Most Successful and Influential Mathematicians, Scientists, Engineers, and Technologists, 2002.

 

Cullum # 1255.