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https://cdn.scencyclopedia.org/sce/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/14141828/638px-Fbs.jpg638900Historian. Simkins was born on December 14, 1897, in Edgefield, the son of Samuel McGowan Simkins and Sarah Raven Lewis. He attended school in Edgefield and in 1918 received his B.A. from the University of South Carolina. He attended Columbia University in New York City and earned his M.A. in 1920 and a Ph.D. in […]