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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.
After John Calhoun's death in 1850, the property and the 50 slaves there passed to his wife to be shared with three of her children: Cornelia, John, and Anna Maria, wife of Thomas Green Clemson. Anna sold her share to Floride Calhoun.
Her fourth child, Anna Maria married Thomas Green Clemson, founder of Clemson University in South Carolina. In 1817, Floride Calhoun accompanied her husband to Washington upon his appointment as Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President James Monroe .
On November 13, 1838, at the age of 31, Clemson married Anna Maria Calhoun, daughter of John C. Calhoun, the noted Senator from South Carolina and 7th Vice President of the United States and Floride Calhoun.
Anna Maria (1817–1875), who married Thomas Green Clemson who later founded Clemson University in South Carolina; Elizabeth (1819–1820) Patrick (1821–1858) John Caldwell Jr. (1823–1850) Martha Cornelia (1824–1857) James Edward (1826–1861) William Lowndes (1829–1858)
Thomas Green Clemson, the university's founder, came to the foothills of South Carolina in 1838, when he married Anna Maria Calhoun, daughter of John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina politician and seventh U.S. Vice President.
John C. Calhoun purchased the plantation and house in 1825. It was passed to his daughter, Anna, and son-in-law Thomas Green Clemson. Clemson willed the land to the state to be used for a public university. The house was listed as a National Historic Landmark in 1960.
Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson; Thomas Green Clemson; Elizabeth Colbert Busch This page was last edited on 26 April 2011, at 05:54 (UTC). Text ...
John C. Calhoun purchased the plantation & house in 1825. It was passed to his daughter, Anna, and son-in-law Thomas Green Clemson. Clemson willed the land to the State to be used for a public university. It was individually listed as a National Historic Landmark in 1960. Hardin Hall: 1890
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