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Ephraim Kirby Smith

Gender:
Male
Born:
June 17, 1807
Died:
September 11, 1847
Home Town:
Litchfield, CT
Later Residences:
St. Augustine, FL
Marriage(s):
Mary Isaacs Jerome (September 30, 1835)
Biographical Notes:
Ephraim Kirby Smith of Litchfield, Connecticut was the son of Joseph Lee Smith and Frances Kirby Smith. Having both been educated in Litchfield, Joseph and Frances sent Ephraim, like his siblings, to Sarah Pierce's Female Academy to study. He later attended West Point and was graduated in 1826. He married Mary Isaacs Jerome in 1835 at Syracuse, NY. They had three children.
Kirby was Captain of an Infantry regiment during the Mexican American War, and died from wounds received at the battle of Molino Del Rey.
Education
Years at LFA:
1819-1821
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
help The Citation of Attendance provides primary source documentation of the student’s attendance at the Litchfield Female Academy and/or the Litchfield Law School. If a citation is absent, the student is thought to have attended but currently lacks primary source confirmation.

Records for the schools were sporadic, especially in the formative years of both institutions. If instructors kept comprehensive records for the Litchfield Female Academy or the Litchfield Law School, they do not survive. Researchers and staff have identified students through letters, diaries, family histories and genealogies, and town histories as well as catalogues of students printed in various years. Art and needlework have provided further identification of Female Academy Students, and Litchfield County Bar records document a number of Law School students. The history of both schools and the identification of the students who attended them owe credit to the early 20th century research and documentation efforts of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel and Samuel Fisher, and the late 20th century research and documentation efforts of Lynne Templeton Brickley and the Litchfield Historical Society staff.
CITATION OF ATTENDANCE:
1819 Litchfield Female Academy Summer Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. More Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1927).

1819 Litchfield Female Academy Winter Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. More Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1927).

1820 Litchfield Female Academy Summer Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. More Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1927).

1820 Litchfield Female Academy Catalog Winter Session (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).

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Secondary Sources:
Dwight, Melatiah Everett, "The Kirbys of New England : a history of the descendants of John Kirby of Middletown, Conn. and of Joseph Kirby of Hartford, Conn., and of Richard Kirby of Sandwich, Mass. together with genealogies of the Burgis, White and Maclaren families, and the ancestry of John Drake, of Windsor, Conn," 1898. Accessed at https://archive.org/details/kirbysofnewengla00dwig/page/n381/mode/2up?q=%22ephraim+kirby%22 April 16, 2024.

Greenlee, Cynthia "The Doctor and the Confederate" Smithsonian Magazine, January/Februrary 2023 Accessed at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-doctor-and-the-confederate-180981303/ ...
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