Samuel Mosheim Schmucker

Samuel Mosheim Schmucker (1823-1863) was an American historical writer. He was born at New Market, Virginia, to noted Lutheran pastor Samuel Simon Schmucker. [John Walter Wayland, "A History of Shenandoah County," (Strasburg, Va: Shenandoah Pub. House, 1969) p. 563. available online through [http://books.google.com/books?id=iN8qIyxGfLUC&pg=PA563&lpg=PA563&dq=%22samuel+simon+schmucker%22+genealogy&source=web&ots=9Cco-ic87Z&sig=5kckGd-IlDHmcOdFmoO8gkpc65g#PPA563,M1 googlebooks] (retrieved November 21, 2007).] He was graduated from 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. Frmont, 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, 1862)

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