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Smith, Rev. Franklin Gillette
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:
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