William Wragg Smith

William Wragg Smith, b.1808 d.1875, was the son of the U.S. statesman William Loughton Smith. He was a gentleman planter, lawyer, naturalist, translator and poet. He was the second-to-last owner of the Smith-Wragg Plantation, the last being his wife Mary Theresa Hedley Smith and their children, who moved to New York. He was also a founding member of the Elliott Natural History Society; Elliott was a founder of the Smithsonian.

He authored several works, including:
* "The Last Canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, translated and amplified from the French of Alphonse de Lamartine" [and other minor poems] (1842).
* "Autumn Coloring, Fall of the Leaf, Winter Habit of Trees and Shrubs in the Lower Country of South Carolina."
* "Sketch of the Seminole War and Sketches during a Campaign. By a Lieutenant of the Left Wing", which was published anonymously but subsequently attributed to "W.W. Smith" in some cases, and M.M. Cohen in others (some sources suggests the Cohen attribution was a mistake.) This book deals with wartime events, Florida botany, as well as Seminole language and customs.
* "Flora of the Lower Country of South Carolina Reviewed" (1859)

External links

* [http://home.comcast.net/~vinum/SmithWragg The Smith-Wragg Plantation] site.
* [http://www.ccpl.org/content.asp?id=15667&action=detail&catID=6028&parentID=5747 25-27 Broad St] , a Charleston property built by William Wragg Smith.
* [http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:6BV-bV_10qcJ:docsouth.unc.edu/imls/census/census.html+%22william+wragg+smith%22&hl=en&client=firefox-a Census] showing Wm Wragg Smith] at his 22 King Street residence in Charleston in 1861.
* [http://dubose_forum.tripod.com/poem4.html Melody] : a poem by William Wragg Smith.
* [http://home.comcast.net/~vinum/SeminoleWar.zip Copy of the book Sketch of the Seminole War and Sketches during a Campaign] (over 100 megabytes zip file)