Simkins, Francis Butler, 1897-1966

Francis Butler Simkins (1897-1966), native of Edgefield, S.C., was a historian. He was educated at the University of South Carolina and at Columbia University. He was a professor of history at Longwood College, Farmville, Va. His published works include South Carolina During Reconstruction (1931) with Robert Woody; The Women of the Confederacy, (1936) with James Patton; Pitchfork Ben Tillman: South Carolina (1944), a biography of Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1913), South Carolina governor and United States senator; and The South Old and New (1947), later revised and retitled A History of the South (1957); among others.

From the guide to the Francis Butler Simkins Papers, ., circa 1940s, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)