Archer Butler Hulbert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American historical geographer
Date of Birth: 26-Jan-1873
Place of Birth: Bennington, Vermont, United States
Date of Death: 24-Dec-1933
Profession: geographer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Archer Butler Hulbert
- Archer Butler Hulbert, FRGS (Jan 26, 1873 – December 24, 1933), historical geographer, writer, and professor of American history, son of Rev.
- Calvin Butler Hulbert and Mary Elizabeth Woodward, was born in Bennington, Vermont.
- His father later became President of Middlebury College.
- Hulbert was married twice.
- On September 10, 1901 he married Mary Elizabeth Stacy, who died in 1920.
- On June 16, 1923 he married Dorothy Printup.
- He had two daughters by each wife.Hulbert graduated from Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio, in 1895.
- Hulbert also received an honorary MA in 1904 and was awarded an LHD in 1930.
- He received a Litt.D.
- from Middlebury in 1929.He was Vice-Principal of the Putnam Military Academy, Zanesville, Ohio, until 1897.
- Hulbert then did newspaper work in Korea from 1897 to 1898: he was editor of the Korean Independent (Seoul) and edited Far East American newspapers.
- His brother, Homer Hulbert, had gone there in 1886.
- He was Professor of American History at Marietta College 1904-18.
- After Marietta College, Hulbert became a lecturer in American History at Clark University from 1918 to 1919.
- He also was a lecturer at the University of Chicago in 1904 and 1923; and he served as archivist for the Harvard Commission on Western History (1912–16).
- Hulbert's last position was at Colorado College, from 1920 until his death.
- After his death, his wife, Dorothy Printup Hulbert, continued his work.Hulbert's interest in trails dated from fishing trips taken during his college, when he noticed Indian trails.
- This interest led at first to his 16 volumes of Historic Highways of America (1902–05).The 1929 Bibliography of Archer Butler Hulbert lists 102 volumes.
- His work Forty Niners (1931) won a $5,000 prize from The Atlantic Monthly magazine.
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