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)

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1. ^ 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.