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| name=Betty Jane Mitchell Gorin-Smith​

| name=Betty Jane Mitchell Gorin-Smith​

(Kentucky historian and retired educator)​

(Civil War historian and retired Kentucky educator)​

| birth_date=December 18, 1940​

| birth_date=December 18, 1940​

| birth_place=Campbellsville<br>Taylor County, Kentucky​

| birth_place=Campbellsville<br>Taylor County, Kentucky​

|website=http://bettyjgorin.com/other.html​}}

|website=http://bettyjgorin.com/other.html​}}

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'''Betty Jane Mitchell Gorin-Smith''', known as '''Betty Jane Gorin-Smith''' (born December 18, 1940), is an independent [[historian]] from Campbellsville in Taylor County in central [[Kentucky]], best known for her book ''Morgan Is Coming!: Confederate Raiders in the Heartland of Kentucky,'' a study of [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[General]] John Hunt Morgan's raids in 1863 during the height of the [[American Civil War]].<ref name=book>{{cite book|url=http://warandgame.com/2007/12/15/book-review-morgan-is-coming-confederate-raiders-in-the-heartland-of-kentucky/|title=Morgan Is Coming: Confederate Raiders in the Heartland of Kentucky|author=Betty Gorin -Smith|publisher=[[Louisville]], [[Kentucky]] (Harmony House Publishers, 2006, 452 pp.|ISBN 978-1-56469-134-7}}</ref>​

'''Betty Jane Mitchell Gorin-Smith''', known as '''Betty Jane Gorin-Smith''' (born December 18, 1940), is an independent [[historian]] from Campbellsville in Taylor County in central [[Kentucky]], best known for her book ''Morgan Is Coming!: Confederate Raiders in the Heartland of Kentucky,'' a study of [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[General]] John Hunt Morgan's raids in 1863 during the height of the [[American Civil War]].<ref name=book>{{cite book|url=http://warandgame.com/2007/12/15/book-review-morgan-is-coming-confederate-raiders-in-the-heartland-of-kentucky/|title=Morgan Is Coming: Confederate Raiders in the Heartland of Kentucky|author=Betty Gorin -Smith|publisher=[[Louisville]], [[Kentucky]] (Harmony House Publishers, 2006, 452 pp.|ISBN 978-1-56469-134-7}}</ref>

 

A historic preservationist, Gorin-Smith worked to establish the Heartland Civil War Trails project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trailsrus.com/morgan/pr-704.html|title=John Hunt Morgan in Kentucky, August 18, 2004|publisher=trailsrus.com|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref> She has been a primary leader of the preservation effort at the Battle of Tebbs Bend in Taylor County. She is the author of the ''Green River Bridge Battlefield Driving Tour.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bettyjgorin.com/other.html|title=Betty J. Gorin: Author, Historian, Teacher|publisher=bettyjgorin.com|accessdate=February 26, 2011}}</ref> In 2004, then [[U.S. Representative]] Ron Lewis honored Gorin-Smith on the House floor and proclaimed her the "historian laureate" for the Kentucky Heartland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r108:114:./temp/~r108ZgaJzh::|title=Honoring Betty Jane Gorin-Smith|publisher=''[[Congressional Record]]'': 108th Congress (June 2, 2004)|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref>​

A historic preservationist, Gorin-Smith worked to establish the Heartland Civil War Trails project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trailsrus.com/morgan/pr-704.html|title=John Hunt Morgan in Kentucky, August 18, 2004|publisher=trailsrus.com|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref> She has been a primary leader of the preservation effort at the Battle of Tebbs Bend in Taylor County. She is the author of the ''Green River Bridge Battlefield Driving Tour.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bettyjgorin.com/other.html|title=Betty J. Gorin: Author, Historian, Teacher|publisher=bettyjgorin.com|accessdate=February 26, 2011}}</ref> In 2004, then [[U.S. Representative]] Ron Lewis honored Gorin-Smith on the House floor and proclaimed her the "historian laureate" for the Kentucky Heartland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r108:114:./temp/~r108ZgaJzh::|title=Honoring Betty Jane Gorin-Smith|publisher=''[[Congressional Record]]'': 108th Congress (June 2, 2004)|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref>​

 

==Family and education==​

==Family and education==

Gorin-Smith was born in Campbellsville to the former Floye Minor (1917–2003) and David Heistand Mitchell (1919-1995). After Floye and David Mitchell divorced, Floye, a bookkeeper, in 1959 married Howard Smith<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.campbellsville.com/wp/2003/04/23/floye-minor-smith/|title=Floye Minor Smith obituary|publisher=campbellsville.com|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref> (1906–1972), the owner of the Taylor County Stockyards. David H. Mitchell as a 1941 graduate in [[economics]] from [[Harvard College]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]]. He also attended the [[University of Minnesota]], where he studied [[Japan|Japanese]]. His business career was with the Timken Company, which relocated him to [[Cincinnati]] and [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]], [[Ohio]]. He was a veteran of the [[United States Army]] in [[World War II]]. Mitchell was a member of Mensa International and the American Numismatic Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/KYTAYLOR/2004-03/1079211512|title=David H. Mitchell obituary|publisher=archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref>

Gorin-Smith was born in Campbellsville to the former Floye Minor (1917–2003) and David Heistand Mitchell (1919-1995). After Floye and David Mitchell divorced, Floye, a bookkeeper, in 1959 married Howard Smith<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.campbellsville.com/wp/2003/04/23/floye-minor-smith/|title=Floye Minor Smith obituary|publisher=campbellsville.com|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref> (1906–1972), the owner of the Taylor County Stockyards. David H. Mitchell as a 1941 graduate in [[economics]] from [[Harvard College]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]]. He also attended the [[University of Minnesota]], where he studied [[Japan|Japanese]]. His business career was with the Timken Company, which relocated him to [[Cincinnati]] and [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]], [[Ohio]]. He was a veteran of the [[United States Army]] in [[World War II]]. Mitchell was a member of Mensa International and the American Numismatic Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/KYTAYLOR/2004-03/1079211512|title=David H. Mitchell obituary|publisher=archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref>​

 

Betty Jane Mitchell graduated with Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from the [[University of Kentucky]] at [[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]]. She has also studied at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, [[Tennessee]], and the [[University of Virginia]] at [[Charlottesville, Virginia|Charlottesville]], [[Virginia]]. She formerly taught history for some three decades at Taylor County High School and at [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated [[Campbellsville University]] in Campbellsville and Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia in Adair County, Kentucky. In 1987, she was a [[J. William Fulbright|Fulbright]] scholar in  the [[Netherlands]].<ref name=awards>{{cite web|url=http://www.campbellsville.edu/Websites/cu/Files/Content/740887/cvilliansum04.pdf|author=Joan C. McKinney|title=Campbellsville University presents second Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards|page=5|publisher=campbellsville.edu|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref>​

Betty Jane Mitchell graduated with Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from the [[University of Kentucky]] at [[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]]. She has also studied at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, [[Tennessee]], and the [[University of Virginia]] at [[Charlottesville, Virginia|Charlottesville]], [[Virginia]]. She formerly taught history for some three decades at Taylor County High School and at [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated [[Campbellsville University]] in Campbellsville and Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia in Adair County, Kentucky. In 1987, she was a [[J. William Fulbright|Fulbright]] scholar in  the [[Netherlands]].<ref name=awards>{{cite web|url=http://www.campbellsville.edu/Websites/cu/Files/Content/740887/cvilliansum04.pdf|author=Joan C. McKinney|title=Campbellsville University presents second Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards|page=5|publisher=campbellsville.edu|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref>​

 

Betty Jane Mitchell first married Donald L. Gorin (1940-2000), a Taylor County native and graduate of Campbellsville High School and [[Tennessee Tech University]] in Cookeville,  where he played [[basketball]] and [[baseball]]. He served in the Kentucky National Guard. He was a partner in the firm Blevins-Gorin Construction Company and a founder of Wholesale Hardwood Interiors. In 1990, Don Gorin was named "Kentucky Entrepreneur of the Year" by the accounting firm, [[Ernst & Young]]. The Gorins have a son, Mark Alan Gorin (born ca. 1965) and wife, Deborah, of Carmel, [[Indiana]], and a  daughter, Beth G. Cox (born ca. 1968) and husband Michael Todd Cox (born ca. 1966), of Hendersonville, Tennessee.<ref name=awards/><ref name=dgorin>{{cite web|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/KYTAYLOR/2004-03/1079896325|title=Don Gorin obituary|publisher=archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref> Don Gorin also had a second son by a later marriage, Brandon Gorin, who resided in [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], at the time of his father's death.<ref name=dgorin/>​

Betty Jane Mitchell first married Donald L. Gorin (1940-2000), a Taylor County native and graduate of Campbellsville High School and [[Tennessee Tech University]] in Cookeville,  where he played [[basketball]] and [[baseball]]. He served in the Kentucky National Guard. He was a partner in the firm Blevins-Gorin Construction Company and a founder of Wholesale Hardwood Interiors. In 1990, Don Gorin was named "Kentucky Entrepreneur of the Year" by the accounting firm, [[Ernst & Young]]. The Gorins have a son, Mark Alan Gorin (born ca. 1965) and wife, Deborah, of Carmel, [[Indiana]], and a  daughter, Beth G. Cox (born ca. 1968) and husband Michael Todd Cox (born ca. 1966), of Hendersonville, Tennessee.<ref name=awards/><ref name=dgorin>{{cite web|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/KYTAYLOR/2004-03/1079896325|title=Don Gorin obituary|publisher=archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref> Don Gorin also had a second son by a later marriage, Brandon Gorin, who resided in [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], at the time of his father's death.<ref name=dgorin/>​

 

After her divorce, Betty Gorin married Gordon E. Smith (born ca. 1928), an instructor in the English as a Second Language program at Campbellsville University,<ref name=awards/> and hence acquired her hyphenated name. Gordon Smith edited his wife's book on General Morgan, which is considered exceptionally well-researched.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.amazon.com/Morgan-Coming-Confederate-Heartland-Kentucky/dp/1564691349|title=Morgan Is Coming!|publisher=Harmony House Publishers|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref>​

After her divorce, Betty Gorin married Gordon E. Smith (born ca. 1928), an instructor in the English as a Second Language program at Campbellsville University,<ref name=awards/> and hence acquired her hyphenated name. Gordon Smith edited his wife's book on General Morgan, which is considered exceptionally well-researched.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.amazon.com/Morgan-Coming-Confederate-Heartland-Kentucky/dp/1564691349|title=Morgan Is Coming!|publisher=Harmony House Publishers|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref>​

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