McPherson, Samuel McClung

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Class of 1858
    Full name
    Samuel McClung McPherson
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    No. of Siblings
    7
    No. of Spouses
    0
    No. of Children
    0
    Family
    Joel McPherson (father), Amanda McClung (mother)
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Other
    Other Education
    Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA
    Occupation
    Military
    Doctor, Dentist or Nurse
    Church or Religious Denomination
    Presbyterian
    Military
    Confederate Army

    Samuel McClung McPherson (Dickinson Chronicles)

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    Samuel M. McPherson was born on October 11, 1837 at Lewisburg, Virginia, now West Virginia, to state legislator and Virginia militia officer Colonel Joel McPherson and his wife Amanda McClung McPherson. He was the fourth child of eight. McPherson entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was elected to the Union Philosophical Society there, and graduated with his class in the early summer of 1858.

    McPherson studied medicine in Philadelphia and earned his medical degree. Early in the Civil War he became surgeon of the Fifty-ninth Virginia Infantry and a well-known and respected medical officer under General Henry A. Wise.

    On June 14, 1863, Samuel McClung McPherson died in the service of the Confederate States near Richmond, Virginia. He was twenty-five years old.
    John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Samuel McClung McPherson,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/m/ed_mcphersonSM.htm.
    How to Cite This Page: "McPherson, Samuel McClung," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6244.