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Col. Eli Thomas Stackhouse
Stackhouse was born in Little Rock, Marion County, S.C., March
27, 1824; attended the common schools; worked on his father’s
farm; taught school for several years; later engaged in agricultural
pursuits; enlisted in the Confederate Army January 9, 1861,
and served throughout the Civil War, attaining the rank of colonel
of the Eighth Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers; member of
the State house of representatives 1863, 1865-1866; member of
the first board of trustees of Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical
College of South Carolina in 1887; first president of the South
Carolina State Farmers’ Alliance in 1888; elected as a
Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress and served from March
4, 1891, until his death in Washington, D.C., June 14, 1892;
interment in Little Rock Cemetery, Little Rock, S.C.
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