 Picture Courtesy of Garry Thompson
 Picture Courtesy of Garry Thompson
A native Philadelphian and leading agriculturist, Mr. Clemson was US charge d'affaires to Belgium, US superintendent of Agriculture, and the 1868 president of Pendleton Farmers Society. He married the daughter of John C. Calhoun, Anna, 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 fifty yards south.
Erected by the Student Alumni Council of the Clemson Alumni Association, 1977.
East Queen Street at St. Paul's Episcopal Church Anderson County South Carolina
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