Archer Butler Hulbert
Archer Butler Hulbert (January 26, 1873 – December 24, 1933) was an American historical geographer, writer, and professor of American history. He was born in Bennington, Vermont, the son of Reverend Calvin Butler Hulbert and Mary Elizabeth Woodward; his father later became president of Middlebury College. Hulbert married Mary Elizabeth Stacy in 1901; she died in 1920. He married Dorothy Printup in 1923. He had four daughters, two from each marriage.
He graduated from Marietta College in 1895 and earned several honors later: an MA in 1904, a Litt.D. in 1929, and an LHD from Middlebury in 1930.
Early in his career he was vice-principal of the Putnam Military Academy in Zanesville, Ohio, until 1897, then worked as a newspaper editor in Korea from 1897 to 1898, editing the Korean Independent in Seoul and other Far East papers. His brother Homer Hulbert had gone to Korea earlier.
Hulbert was a Professor of American History at Marietta College from 1904 to 1918. He then lectured at Clark University (1918–1919) and at the University of Chicago (1904 and 1923). He also served as archivist for the Harvard Commission on Western History (1912–1916). His final job was at Colorado College, where he worked from 1920 until his death.
His interest in trails began on fishing trips during college, which led to his multi-volume Historic Highways of America (sixteen volumes, 1902–1905). A 1929 bibliography lists 102 volumes. His book Forty Niners (1931) won a $5,000 prize from The Atlantic Monthly. After his death, his wife Dorothy continued his work.
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