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|serviceyears=1833–1836 (USA) 1861–1865 (CSA) |rank= Second Lieutenant (USA) 35px Major General (VA Militia) 35px Colonel (CSA) |branch= |commands=9th Virginia Infantry 35px Virginia Military Institute |unit= 1st U.S. Artillery |battles=American Civil War |awards= |laterwork=Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute }} Francis Henney Smith (October 18, 1812–March 21, 1890) was an American military officer, mathematician and educator. After graduating from West Point and a brief service in the United States Army, he became the first Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute on its establishment in 1839, and held that post until shortly before his death. His superintendency included the four years of the American Civil War, during which he served as a major general in the Virginia militia and a colonel in the Confederate States Army. ==Early life== Smith was born in Norfolk, Virginia. He married Miss Sarah Henderson on June 9, 1835 at West Point, New York. They had seven children.〔Eicher and Eicher, p. 494.〕 Smith graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1833 and served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army until he resigned his commission on May 1, 1836. Thereafter, he was a professor of mathematics at Hampden-Sydney College from 1836 to 1839.〔 When the Virginia Military Institute was established in Lexington, board of trustees member John Thomas Lewis Preston successfully recruited Smith to be the school's first superintendent. By the time classes had begun on November 11, 1839, Preston had been appointed to the faculty, and he worked with Smith at VMI until retiring in 1882. Some time before the Civil War, he was appointed colonel in the Virginia Militia.〔 Smith was the author of ''An Elementary Treatise on Algebra'' (1858) and co-author of ''The American Statistical Arithmetic, Designed for Academies and Schools'' (1845), ''Best Methods of Conducting Common Schools'' (1849) and ''College Reform'' (1850) and translator of ''An Elementary Treatise on Analytical Geometry'' (1860).〔 Smith is also known as Sigma Nu International Fraternity's spiritual founder. 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「Francis Henney Smith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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