Benjamin Eli Smith
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Benjamin Eli Smith, L.H.D. (February 7, 1857 – March 18, 1913) was an American
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 editor and the son of Eli Smith
Eli Smith
Eli Smith was an American Protestant Missionary and scholar, born at Northford, Conn. He graduated from Yale in 1821 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1826. He worked in Malta until 1829, then in company with H. G. O. Dwight traveled through Armenia and Georgia to Persia. They published...

. Born in Beirut
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, Ottoman Empire
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 (now Beirut, Lebanon
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), he graduated from Amherst College
Amherst College
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 (A.B., 1877; A.M., 1881), earning the degree of L.H.D. in 1902. He was managing editor of the first edition of the Century Dictionary
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, and editor-in-chief of the revised edition after the death of editor William Dwight Whitney
William Dwight Whitney
William Dwight Whitney was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer who edited The Century Dictionary.-Life:William Dwight Whitney was born in Northampton, Massachusetts on February 9, 1827. His father was Josiah Dwight Whitney of the New England Dwight family...

 in 1894. As the editor, he was also responsible for the Century Cyclopedia of Names (1894), the Century Atlas (1897), the two-volume Century Dictionary Supplement (1909), and the revised and enlarged Century Dictionary, Cyclopedia, and Atlas (twelve volumes, 1911). Additionally, he translated Schwegler's
Albert Schwegler
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 History of Philosophy and Cicero's
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De Amicitia, as well as edited selections from other works.

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