Benjamin Simms Fitzgerald: Pioneer Educator


on Thursday, February, 18 2010 @ 06:21:00 pm (915 words)
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Benjamin Simms Fitzgerald, educator, soldier, and businessman, was born in Johnston County, North Carolina, in 1828.  The son of Gisborn and Mary Fitzgerald, he spent much of his early life in Mississippi.  He was working as a sawyer at the time the 1850… more »