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Learn about the life and legacy of Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson, the wife of Thomas Green Clemson and co-founder of Clemson University. Explore her childhood, education, marriage, children, and role as a diplomat's spouse, plantation mistress, and alma mater.
- Legacy of a Southern Lady: Anna Calhoun Clemson, 1817-1875
And one of the most important nineteenth-century South...
- Legacy of a Southern Lady: Anna Calhoun Clemson, 1817-1875
Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson (February 13, 1817 – September 22, 1875) was the daughter of John C. Calhoun and Floride Calhoun (née Colhoun), and the wife of Thomas Green Clemson, the founder of Clemson University.
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Anna Maria Calhoun (Feb 13, 1817 Sept 22, 1875) married Thomas G Clemson, native of Philadelphia, who was born July 1, 1807 and died at Fort Hill, South Carolina, in the John C Calhoun home, April 6, 1888.
After 1866, Floride Calhoun recovered Fort Hill through foreclosure and willed it to her daughter and remaining child, Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson. The Clemsons hired many of the former Calhoun slaves — who were freed during the Civil War — as wage hands.
And one of the most important nineteenth-century South Carolinians is Anna Maria Calhoun, daughter and frequent confidante of John Caldwell Calhoun, one of the important political and intellectual figures of nineteenth-century American history.
19 de mai. de 2018 · This book is a history and portrait of Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson, the daughter and frequent confidante of John Caldwell Calhoun, a significant political and intellectual figure of nineteenth-century American history.
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