Justin Harvey Smith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American historian
Date of Birth: 13-Jan-1857
Place of Birth: Boscawen, New Hampshire, United States
Date of Death: 21-Mar-1930
Profession: historian
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Justin Harvey Smith
- Justin Harvey Smith (1857, Boscawen, New Hampshire–1930, Brooklyn, New York) was an American historian and specialist on the Mexican–American War.Smith was educated at Dartmouth College (B.A.
- 1877; M.A.
- 1881) and Union Theological Seminary (1879–1881).
- Smith worked for Charles Scribner's Sons publishers 1881–1883 and Ginn & Co.
- 1883–1898 (becoming a partner in 1890); he was Professor of Modern History at Dartmouth 1899–1908.
- He resigned his professorship in 1908 to pursue historical research, and published The Annexation of Texas in 1911 and The War with Mexico in 1919.
- For the latter he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1920 and the first Loubat Prize in 1923.
- From 1917 to 1923 Smith was chairman of the Historical Manuscripts Commission of the American Historical Association. Smith also wrote Our Struggle for the Fourteenth Colony in 1907.
- He wrote Arnold's March from Cambridge to Quebec in 1903.
- In 1899 he wrote The Troubadours at Home. Smith's papers were donated to the Latin American collection of the University of Texas library, (now the Benson Latin American Collection, by a book dealer, Michael M.
- Russel, who had acquired them.
- The collection enriched the university's materials on the Mexican–American War.On May 22, 1892, Smith married Mary Ellen Barnard in Boston, Massachusetts; they divorced in 1895.
- Her stage name was Marie Ellene Barna, also known as Marie Russak. Smith was the son of Rev.
- Ambrose Smith (1820–1882) and Cynthia Marie Egerton (1821–1899), and a descendant of Gov.
- William Bradford of the Mayflower via his mother's father, Ariel Egerton (1789–1859).
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