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Kirby-Smith

American  
[kur-bee-smith] / ˈkɜr biˈsmɪθ /

noun

  1. Edmund, 1824–93, Confederate general in the American Civil War.


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He also met his future wife, Selden Kirby-Smith, with whom he had two children before they divorced in 1976.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2021

“I was never on the road with them,” he said, noting that he was living “a respectable married life” after marrying Selden Kirby-Smith in 1951.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2021

Returning to the U.S. in 1950, he settled in San Francisco, where he rented an apartment with Selden Kirby-Smith, a Swarthmore and Columbia graduate he had met on a steamship from New York to Paris.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2021

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