Samuel Mosheim Schmucker
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Samuel Mosheim Schmucker (1823-1863) was an American historical writer. He was born at New Market, Virginia, to noted Lutheran pastor Samuel Simon Schmucker.[1] He graduated at Washington College in Pennsylvania in 1840, became a Lutheran pastor in the Pennsylvania Ministerium. In 1850, he was admitted to the bar, and he devoted most of his later years to writing. His publications include:
- Life of John C. Frémont, with his Explorations (1856)
- Life and Times of Alexander Hamilton (1856)
- Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson (1857)
- The Yankee Slave-Driver (1857)
- Life of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane and Other American Explorers (1858)
- Life and Times of Henry Clay (1859)
- Blue Laws of Connecticut (1860)
- History of the Modern Jews (1860)
- A History of the Civil War in the United States (volume i, 1863)
[edit] References
- ^ John Walter Wayland, A History of Shenandoah County, (Strasburg, Va: Shenandoah Pub. House, 1969) p. 563. available online through googlebooks (retrieved November 21, 2007).
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
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