14 Facts About Tennessee Claflin

Tennessee Claflin's exact birth date is unclear, but she is generally reported to have been born between 1843 and 1846.

Reuben Buckman Tennessee Claflin, known as "Buck," was a snake oil salesman who posed as a doctor.

Tennessee Claflin had some legal training and sometimes presented himself as a lawyer.

Tennessee Claflin came from an impoverished branch of the Massachusetts-based Scots-American Claflin family, semi-distant cousins to Governor William Claflin.

In December 1825, Buck Tennessee Claflin married Roxanna Hummel, sometimes called "Roxy".

Tennessee Claflin called himself "The King of Cancer" and advertised Tennessee's healing abilities.

Tennessee Claflin faced the most serious charge as she was blamed for the death of a patient named Rebecca Howe.

In late 1869, Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin rented two rooms at the posh Hoffman House at 44 Broad Street in New York City.

Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin had hit upon an untapped source of investment capital.

Tennessee Claflin announced her candidacy at Irving Plaza surrounded by German and American flags.

The men of the Ninth Regiment ignored Claflin's offer, but Commander Thomas J Griffin invited Claflin to run for the colonelcy of the newly organized Eighty-Fifth Regiment for black soldiers.

Tennessee Claflin was probably the best-known Protestant minister in the United States at that time, earning an immense salary of $100,000 a year as a minister at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn.

Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin spent the next few months in and out of jail on a variety of trumped-up obscenity charges brought by the rising vice crusader Anthony Comstock.

The second marriage had surprised Tennessee Claflin, who expected to marry him herself.