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arr*NOTED HISTORIANlt;t Ir IMORGUE MYSTERYFOR MANY HOURSaAccident Victim Identified[Jj as Justin H. Smith ofGinn Ac Company, andd !u°IIFVize Winner,WORLD KNOWN, BUTNOT IN NEW YORKnnProfessor Fell Dead onitStreet, and Lay Unrecognized Until Head ofPublishingGompanvViewed Body,itt*tt| NEW TOUK. March 23.. ——Tho body of an elderly man who ** fell dead !n front of Borough Hall, Brooklyn. Friday, ha* been identified an that of Professor Justini, Harvey Smith, author and hitter*- t ian. who won the 191'* Pulitzer^ I prise for history and formerlyserved on the facultiee of Harvard0 ! University and Dartmouth College,il The body identified by George A. Plimpton, head of Ginn and Company, publisher*, of which ' Profeasor Smith was a pgxiner. andi. | by Dr. Houston Smith of Trenton, , e IK. J„ nephew of Professor Smith, was taken today to Trenton for y funeral aertrlcas, Dr. Smith said n ; hurii probably would be in Boss* cawen, N. H, Profenaor Smith'st■■,) birthplace.Profeaeor Smith arrived in NewiVork from Florida on Friday.Shortly after hts arrival, a* he was (\ walkina la Brooklyn, he suffered a Lheart attack and died before aid f COttld reach him. Hln body re- jmained unidentified for many flliMMk 'jMHe made hi* home in Boston formany years, but recently establish- ^ ••d a residence In New York City j 1 He was 73 years old. ,* I Educated at Dartmouth College L* and Union Theological Seminary, . tNew York, Professor Smith enter- j t *d the publishing b islmsMi In 1881. 1Until 1898, he was In charge of the»j editorial department of Ginn and lt;i j Company, of which firm he had b«-I coma a partner,t * From 1S99 to 198. he was pro-f! feseor of modern history at Dart- : . } mouth and from lit# to 1991 was Jf a member of the visiting commit*» tee on romance philology at Her*. j vard. a . • ' 1-.. | Jn 1920, Columbia University?« gave him the $2,000 PuUtaer prize ‘! for ‘The letters of Santa Ana,' , adjudged the le»t book on Ameri- 1can history published the previous 4 i year. In 1923, he received the 1 first Loubet prize of $1,099 for the 1t best book in English on the hts- tory, geography, archeology, ethno-‘ logy, philology and numismatic* of I I North America He was unraar*» rled. * ! *
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Jamestown Morning Post
Jamestown, New York, US
Mon, Mar 24, 1930
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