1875

• January 5: Asbury Francis Lever, future U.S. Senator and Life Trustee of Clemson Agricultural College, is born near Springhill, Lexington County, South Carolina.
• March 17: The towns of Central and Westminster are incorporated, according to an Act of the South Carolina Legislature.
• June: William S. Morrison graduates from Wofford College, with honors. (The Oconeean 1904, Volume Two.)
• June 7: Arthur Buist Bryan born.
• July 24: Two men place an obstruction on the track of the Air Line Railroad, derailing a passenger train near Central Station. The Pickens Sentinel reports on Thursday, September 2, 1875, that Jim Smith and John Rother are jailed August 26 and charged with the "horrible crime" ... "with the intention of committing murder. Thomas Glaspy was also committed as a witness. Rother has confessed. Capt. Alley (or Nalley), by the assistance of a French gentleman of African persuasion, worked up the case. ("The Pickens Sentinel, Pickens Court House, South Carolina, 1872-1893, Historical and Genealogical Abstracts, Volume 1, compiled by Peggy Burton Rich and Marion Ard Whitehurst, Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland, 1994, ISBN 1-55613-985-3, page 8.)
• August 1: Randolph T. V. Bowman, one of Clemson's first assistant football coaches and the very first baseball coach, as well as an instructor in forge and foundry, is born this date.
• Circa September: A new station is completed at Liberty by the Atlanta & Richmond Air Line Railway, several issues of The Pickens Sentinel report this month. ("The Pickens Sentinel, Pickens Court House, South Carolina, 1872-1893, Historical and Genealogical Abstracts, Volume 1, compiled by Peggy Burton Rich and Marion Ard Whitehurst, Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland, 1994, ISBN 1-55613-985-3, pages 8-10.)
• September 6: Charles Carter Newman, future Professor of Horticulture at Clemson, born at Sparta, Georgia this date.
• September 22: Anna Calhoun Clemson dies, leaving her Fort Hill estate to her husband Thomas Green Clemson.
• November 1: An earthquake is felt at Pickens, The Pickens Sentinel reports on Thursday, November 11, 1875. ("The Pickens Sentinel, Pickens Court House, South Carolina, 1872-1893, Historical and Genealogical Abstracts, Volume 1, compiled by Peggy Burton Rich and Marion Ard Whitehurst, Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland, 1994, ISBN 1-55613-985-3, page 15.)
• December 22: First Lieutenant Edgar Alexander Sirmyer, born in Michigan; entered West Point, June 1893, graduating June 1897; detailed to Clemson August 28, 1902, as Commandant of Cadets and Professor of Military Science and Tactics. (The Oconeean, Volume Two, 1904, page 17.)

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