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Thomas Green Clemson, a native of Philadelphia and a leading agriculturist, served as U.S. charge d'affaires to Belgium, U.S. Superintendent of Agriculture, and president of the Pendleton Farmers Society in 1868. He married Anna, the daughter of John C. Calhoun, and later bought the Calhoun home, Fort Hill. An advocate of the national land grant movement, he left his estate to establish Clemson University. He is buried 50 yards south.
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Pendleton, South Carolina · United States
