Thomas Green Clemson - Grave of a Famous Person on Waymarking.com

Thomas Green Clemson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and educated in Paris. In 1838 he married Anna Maria Calhoun, daugher of Vice President John C. Calhoun. Upon the death of Vice President Calhoun Anna Maria inherited the Fort Hill Plantation near Pendleton, South Carolina. Thomas Clemson outlived his wife and children and lived at the Fort Hill Estate until his death. Upon his death his will called for the establishment of a land-grand institution to be call “The Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina.” This land grant college is today known as Clemson University.
Source/Credit: Clemson University

Description: Thomas Green Clemson was born on July 1, 1807 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania an was eucated at Sorbonne and the Royal School of Mines in Paris. On November 13, 1838 he marrie Anna Maria Calhoun, who the daughter of Senator an 7th Vice President John C. Calhoun. Upon the death of Vice President Calhoun, Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson and two other Calhoun children inherited Fort Hill Plantation near Pendleton, South Carolina. After the Civil War Fort Hill was the subject a lenghty legal procedures and finally the plantation was auctioned in 1872. Eventually the surviving heirs received equal shares of the property. Anna Calhoun Clemson received the residence and about 815 acres. Anna died in 1875 and Thomas Green Clemson inherited Fort Hill and lived there until his death in 1888. During the Civil War Thomas Clemson served the Confeeracy and worked in Arkansas and Texas developing nitrate mines for explosives. At the end of the war, he was paroled on June 9, 1865 at Shreveport, Louisiana. Clemson outlived his wife an children and upon his death his will called for the establishment of a land-grand institution to be call “The Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina.” The Clemson Agricultural College was founded on the Fort Hill estate in 1889. In 1943 the town of Calhoun which bordered the campus was renamed Clemson and in 1964 the Clemson Agricultural College was renamed Clemson University. Thomas Green Clemson died on April 6, 1888 and is buried in the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Cemetery in Pendleton, South Carolina. Date of birth: 07/01/1807 Date of death: 04/06/1888 Area of notoriety: Education Marker Type: Monument Setting: Outdoor Visiting Hours/Restrictions: Daily during daylight hours. Fee required?: No Web site: [Web Link]

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