Editing Clemson University (section)

===Beginnings===
[[File:Fort Hill 1887.jpg|thumb|[[Fort Hill (Clemson, South Carolina)|Fort Hill]], photographed in 1887, was the home of [[John C. Calhoun]] and later [[Thomas Green Clemson]] and is at the center of the university campus.]]

[[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 [[Vice President of the United States|U.S. Vice President]].<ref name="History of Clemson">{{cite web|title=History |url=http://www.clemson.edu/about/history/ |publisher=Clemson University|access-date=3 November 2011}}</ref> Through the Calhoun family, Clemson became an owner of enslaved persons on the family plantation that was to become the heart of the future university.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.clemson.edu/about/history/bios/thomas-g-clemson.html | title=Thomas Green Clemson &#124; Clemson University, South Carolina }}</ref>  When Clemson died on April 6, 1888, he bequeathed the [[Fort Hill (Clemson University, South Carolina)|Fort Hill]] plantation and most of his estate, which he inherited from his wife, in his will to be used to establish a college that would teach scientific agriculture and the mechanical arts to South Carolinians.<ref>{{cite web |url-status=dead |url=http://www.clemson.edu/TGC200/the-will.htm |website=Thomas Green Clemson 200 |title=The Will |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923012204/http://www.clemson.edu/TGC200/the-will.htm |archive-date=September 23, 2016 |publisher=Clemson University |access-date=17 September 2011}}</ref> His decision was largely influenced by the future [[Governor of South Carolina|South Carolina Governor]] [[Benjamin Tillman]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kantrowitz |first=Stephen David |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41528409|title=Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy |date=2000|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|isbn=0-8078-2530-1|location=Chapel Hill|oclc=41528409}}</ref> Tillman lobbied the [[South Carolina General Assembly]] to create the school as an agricultural institution for the state, and the resolution passed by only one vote.

In his will, Clemson explicitly stated he wanted the school to be modeled after what is now [[Mississippi State University]]: "This institution, I desire, to be under the control and management of a board of trustees, a part of whom are hereinafter appointed, and to be modeled after the Agricultural College of Mississippi as far as practicable."<ref>{{cite web|title=The Will of Thomas Green Clemson |url=http://www.clemson.edu/about/history/tgc-will.html |website=Clemson University }}</ref>