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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.
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.
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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.
Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson willed her three-fourths share of Fort Hill to her husband, Thomas Clemson, with the caveat that he must die with a will. At Anna’s death in 1875, Thomas worked with two attorneys, James Rion and Richard Wright Simpson, to create his bequest that became Clemson University.
Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson (1817 – 1875) Anna inherited her mother’s style and grace and her father’s interest in politics. She was well educated, culminating her studies at the South Carolina Female Collegiate Institute, an academically rigorous women’s college.
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.
