Source Information

Ancestry.com. South Carolina, Clemson University (Agricultural College) Directory of Graduates, 1896-1940 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data: The Clemson Agricultural College Directory of Graduates 1896-1940. Clemson, South Carolina: Clemson University Libraries.

About South Carolina, Clemson University (Agricultural College) Directory of Graduates, 1896-1940

This directory contains all graduates of the Clemson Agricultural College from 1896 until 1940. The graduates are listed alphabetically and their month and year of graduation are included, as well as their course of study. The graduates’ residence in 1940 and occupation are also listed. Over the 45 years this directory covers, there were 5,474 graduates and addresses were known for 5,124 of them.

This list contains early graduates from Clemson, where the first classes started in 1893 and run to a decade before the school became a civilian school. From 1893 until this directory’s printing and up to 1955, Clemson was an all-male military institution that taught agricultural and mechanical disciplines.

The record contains:

  • Name
  • Major course of study
  • Date of graduation
  • Place of residence and date it was known to be correct
  • Occupation