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Betty Jane Mitchell Gorin-Smith, known as Betty Jane Gorin-Smith (born 1940), is an independent historian from Campbellsville in Taylor County in central Kentucky, best known for her book ''Morgan Is Coming!: Confederate Raiders in the Heartland of Kentucky,'' a study of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raids in 1863 during the height of the American Civil War. A historic preservationist, Gorin-Smith worked to establish the Heartland Civil War Trails project.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Hunt Morgan in Kentucky, August 18, 2004 )〕 She has been a primary leader of the preservation effort at the Tebbs Bend Civil War battlefield, having published the Green River Bridge Battlefield Driving Tour.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Betty J. Gorin: Author, Historian, Teacher )〕 In 2004, U.S. Representative Ron Lewis honored Gorin-Smith on the House floor and proclaimed her the "historian laureate" for the Kentucky Heartland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Honoring Betty Jane Gorin-Smith )〕 ==Family and education== Gorin-Smith was born in Campbellsville to the former Floye Minor (1917–2003) and David Heistand Mitchell. After Floye and David Mitchell divorced, Floye, a bookkeeper, in 1959 married Howard Smith〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Floye Minor Smith obituary )〕 (1906–1972),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Social Security Death Index )〕 the owner of the Taylor County Stockyards. David H. Mitchell (1919–1995) was a 1941 graduate in economics from Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also attended the University of Minnesota, where he studied Japanese. His business career was with the Timken Company, which relocated him to Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. He was a veteran of the United States Army in World War II. Mitchell was a member of Mensa and the American Numismatic Association.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=David H. Mitchell obituary )〕 Betty Jane Mitchell graduated with Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from the University of Kentucky at Lexington. She has also studied at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia. She formerly taught history for some three decades at Taylor County High School and at Southern Baptist-affiliated Campbellsville University in Campbellsville and Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia in Adair County. In 1987, she was a Fulbright scholar to the Netherlands.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Joan C. McKinney, "Campbellsville University presents second Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards," p. 5 )〕 Betty Jane Mitchell first married Donald L. Gorin (April 26, 1940 – August 26, 2000), a Taylor County native and graduate of Campbellsville High School and Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, Tennessee, where he played basketball and baseball. He served in the Kentucky National Guard. He was a partner in the firm Blevins-Gorin Construction Company and a founder of Wholesale Hardwood Interiors. In 1990, Don Gorin was named "Kentucky Entrepreneur of the Year" by the accounting firm, Ernst & Young. The Gorins had a son, Mark Alan Gorin (born ca. 1965) and wife, Deborah, of Carmel, Indiana, and a daughter, Beth G. Cox (born ca. 1968) and husband Michael Todd Cox (born ca. 1966), of Hendersonville, Tennessee.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Don Gorin obituary )〕 Don Gorin also had a second son by a later marriage, Brandon Gorin, who resided in Baltimore, Maryland, at the time of his father's death.〔 After her divorce, Betty Gorin married Gordon E. Smith (born ca. 1928), an instructor in the English as a Second Language program at Campbellsville University,〔 and hence acquired her hyphenated name. Gordon Smith edited his wife's book on General Morgan, which is considered exceptionally well-researched. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Betty Jane Gorin-Smith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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