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Floride Elizabeth Clemson (December 29, 1842 – July 23, 1871) was the daughter of Clemson University founder Thomas Green Clemson, and the granddaughter of former Vice President John C. Calhoun and his wife, Floride Calhoun.
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- Children
- Mrs. Secretary of War 1817-1825
- Second Lady of The United States -1825-1832 and Petticoat Wars 1829-1831
- Plantation Mistress 1831-1854
- Pendleton Home Micasa – Family Matriarch and Venerable Widow 1854-1866
On January 8, 1811, Floride married her first-cousin-once-removed, John C. Calhoun. After the wedding, Mrs. Colhoun continued to oversee much of her daughter Floride Calhoun’s life. From her purchase of the Cold Spring house adjacent to Fort Hill, to her purchase of the Oakley estate in Georgetown in the name of her youngest son, James Edward Colho...
Before the age of 25, Floride had given birth to four children: Andrew Pickens (1811-1865), Floride Pure (1814-1815), Jane (1816-1816) and Anna Maria (1817-1875). The first two daughters, Floride Pure and Jane, died as infants, and there are no records of their burial locations. The Calhouns would lose a third daughter, Elizabeth, who lived over si...
When James Monroe appointed Calhoun as his secretary of war in 1817, the South Carolina statesman moved his family to Washington, setting up residence at the Colhoun family home called Oakley in the Georgetown section of the city. Floride, then in her mid-twenties, seemed to have been quickly accepted into Washington society, enjoying a life of soc...
In 1825, Floride Calhoun was in the spotlight of Washington society as the wife of the vice president, a role she held until December 1832. A portrait hanging over the bed in the master bedroom of the Fort Hill plantation house depicts Floride, dressed in classical attire, at the height of her national prominence. She was involved in an explosive s...
After 1831, Floride seldom visited Washington; instead, she focused on her role as a plantation mistress, managing a 1,100-acre Fort Hill plantation and the African-American slaves. She did not approve of her husband’s financial generosity to some of their children for exploits she considered bad risks, but as a woman she had no control over the fa...
In early April 1850, Floride received the tragic news that her husband of 39 years had died in Washington on March 31. Calhoun’s attorney had not made arrangements for his funeral, and Calhoun had not taken the time to write a will. The statesman was buried in the graveyard across from St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Charleston following eulogies ...
A rebel came home: the diary of Florida Clemson tells of her wartime adventures in Yankeeland, 1863-64, her trip home to South Carolina, and life in the South during the last few months of the Civil war and the year following by Floride Clemson
Floride Elizabeth Clemson (December 29, 1842 – July 23, 1871) was the daughter of Clemson University founder Thomas Green Clemson, and the granddaughter of former Vice President John C. Calhoun and his wife, Floride Calhoun.
Floride Bonneau Calhoun (née Colhoun; February 15, 1792 – July 25, 1866) was the wife of U.S. politician John C. Calhoun. She was known for her leading role in the Petticoat affair, which occurred during her husband's service as vice president of the United States.
Floride Clemson was the daughter of Thomas G. Clemson and Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson. She married Gideon Lee and they had one daughter, Isabella Lee. Floride died suddenly in Carmel, NY in July 1871.
19 de jun. de 2020 · A tintype was donated to Fort Hill in 1938, along with a typewritten letter by Margaret Calhoun, the great-granddaughter of Thomas and Anna Clemson. The tintype was of Marie, a formerly enslaved woman, who was holding baby Floride Isabela Lee, the Clemsons’ granddaughter.
