Smith, Franklin Gillette
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 64, credited to Benson, VT Unit(s): Civilian Service: Middlebury College 1817, A.M. Princeton 1819, teacher, Boys School, Milledgeville, GA 1821, Female Seminary, Lynchburg, Va., 1823, ordained 1823, rector, St. Paul's, Lynchburg 1824-1837, Columbia TN Female Institute 1838-1852, founded Columbia TN Anthenaeum 1852; Civil War service: too old to serve himself, he organized the Maury Rifles, Company B, 2nd Tenn. Inf. C.S.A. 1861 [College: MC 17, PC 20] See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 12/14/1797, Benson, VT Death: 08/04/1866 Burial: Rose Hill Cemetery, Columbia, TN Marker/Plot: Block O Gravestone photographer: Tom Ledoux Findagrave Memorial #: 8497811 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Not found Portrait?: Unknown College?: MC, PTS Veterans Home?: Not Found (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: None DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
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Franklin Gillette Smith
Franklin Gillette Smith, son of Chaunce and Hannah (Brown) Smith, was born in Benson, Vermont on December 14, 1797. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1817, and Princeton University in 1820. After spending some time in Virginia, Rev. Smith went to Tennessee to be president of the Columbia Female Institute, an Episcopal school in Columbia, Tennessee, in which position he served from 1838 to 1852. In 1852 he founded the Columbia Athenaeum, another girls' School. In 1861 he organized the Maury Rifles, Company B, 2nd Tennessee Infantry, in which two of his sons served. See the following:
The Athenaeum Rectory
The Columbia Female Institute
History of the Athenaeum
Columbia Athenaeum History
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