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Dr. Cornelius Cole "Corney" Smith, Jr. (July 18, 1913 – April 27, 2004) was an American author, military historian, illustrator and painter. A survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he was an officer in the United States Marines during World War II and retired at the rank of Colonel. Smith's father, Medal of Honor recipient Cornelius Cole Smith, Sr., also served as a colonel in the Philippines during the Philippine Insurrection and Moro rebellion. After leaving military service in 1947, he held a number of important positions including his employment as an architect for the Arabian-American Oil Company and a museum curator for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. After receiving his MA and Ph.D. degrees in history at Claremont Graduate School, he spent the 1950s as chief of the Historical Division for the 15th Air Force, Strategic Air Command. He began his writing career relatively late in life, at age 57, and was a prolific author of books on military history and the American frontier of the Southwestern United States. In addition to his own father's biography, ''Don't Settle for Second: Life and Times of Cornelius C. Smith'' (1977), he also authored biographies on Arizona frontiersman William Sanders Oury and Russian soldier-of-fortune Emilio Kosterlitzky. His book ''A Southwestern Vocabulary: The Words They Used'' (1984) detailed over 500 terms of slang of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico and is widely cited by historians of the "Old West". ==Early life== Cornelius Cole Smith Jr. was born at Fort Huachuca in Arizona on July 18, 1913. His father, Cornelius Cole Smith, Sr., was commanding officer of the 5th U.S. Cavalry at the time of his birth. Smith came from a prominent military family whose lineage could be traced as far back as the American Revolutionary War; his grandfather, Gilbert Cole Smith, had served an officer in the Union Army's famed California Column during the American Civil War and was also a direct descendant of brothers Granville and William Sanders Oury, William being one of couriers sent out by Colonel William B. Travis' during the Siege of the Alamo.〔Wharfield, H. B. ''Fort Yuma on the Colorado River''. El Cajon, California: privately published, 1968. (pg. 146)〕 His early life growing up on the frontier military post was described by childhood friend H. B. Wharfield in his 1968 book ''Fort Yuma on the Colorado River'', A few years following his father's retirement from the military, he and his family moved to Riverside, California in 1930, where they lived in the historic Victorian Charles E. Packard House; the home remained in the Smith family for over 30 years before Cornelius, Jr. sold it in 1963. Cornelius Smith, Jr. graduated from Riverside Polytechnic High School the following year.〔 He briefly attended Riverside City College where he earned a track scholarship to the University of Southern California, and graduated in 1937.〔Stillwell, Paul, ed. ''Air Raid, Pearl Harbor!: Recollections of a Day of Infamy''. Annapolis, Maryland: US Naval Institute Press, 1981. (pg. 226)〕 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「Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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