Lancaster County, South Carolina, founded in 1785, takes its name from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and the House of Lancaster in England, and proudly displays the red rose as its ancestral emblem. Among people connected with the county are Andrew Jackson, born in the Waxhaws section of Lancaster County in 1767, later the seventh President of the United States and hero of the Battle of New Orleans, who was buried at the Hermitage in Tennessee; J. Marion Sims, born near Heath Springs in 1813, who opened his first medical practice in Lancaster, became known as the Father of Modern Gynecology, founded the Women's Hospital of New York, and served as personal physician to the Empress of France and Queen Victoria of England; Elliott White Springs, born in 1896, a World War I flying ace and well-known author who grew up in the former Lancaster City Hall and merged cotton mills in Lancaster, Chester, Kershaw, and Fort Mill to form Springs Cotton Mills, which became Springs Industries; Nina Mae McKinney, born in 1912, a stage actress and movie star of the 1930s who spent her childhood in Lancaster and was known for performances in Sanders of the River, Hallelujah, and Pinky with Ethel Waters; and Charles M. Duke, Jr., born in 1935, the tenth man to walk on the moon, who flew on NASA's Apollo 16 mission and, with fellow astronaut John Young, drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle while collecting lunar samples.