Clinton, Oneida County, New York

2025-07-10T20:15:10Z

2600:6C67:8700:658:7D14:9136:F568:A206: Added the name of the pioneer who began the settlement of Paris/Clinton<ref>From the Foote family, comprising the Geneology and History of Nathaniel Foote of Wethersfield, Conn. and his descendants. of 2 primary source edition Volume 1. By Abram William Foote</ref>

{{For|other places named Clinton, New York|Clinton, New York (disambiguation)}}
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[[File:Gazebo in the Village Green, Clinton, Oneida County, New York.jpg|thumb|right|Gazebo in the Clinton Village green]]


'''Clinton''' (or '''''Ka-dah-wis-dag''''', "white field" in [[Seneca language]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/annalsrecollecti01jone#page/872/mode/2up |title=Annals and recollections of Oneida County |last=Jones |first=Pomroy |date=1851 |publisher=Published by the author |location=[[Rome, New York]] |page=872}}</ref>) is a [[Administrative divisions of New York#Village|village]] in [[Oneida County, New York]], United States. The population was 1,942 at the 2010 census, declining to 1,683 in the 2020 census, 13% decline). It was named for [[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]], the first [[Governor of New York]].{{sfn|Gridley|1874|p=24}}

The '''village of Clinton''' is within the town of [[Kirkland, New York|Kirkland]]. Clinton was known as the "village of schools" due to the large number of private schools operating in the village during the 19th century.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}} [[Hamilton College]] is in proximity to the village.<ref name=CDPMapClinton>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st36_ny/place/p3631746_hamilton_college/DC20BLK_P3631746.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Hamilton College CDP, NY|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2024-10-07}}<br>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st36_ny/place/p3616419_clinton/DC20BLK_P3616419.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Clinton village, NY|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2024-10-07}}</ref>

In describing the attractions of Hamilton College in 1833, it was stated to be "situated in one of the most healthful, delightful, and fertile parts of our country; surrounded by a numerous, increasing, virtuous, and enterprising population."<ref>{{cite book
|title=A narrative of the embarrassments and decline of Hamilton College
|last=Davis
|first=Henry
|authorlink=Henry Davis (cleric)
|year=1833
|url=https://archive.org/details/narrativeofembar00daviiala
|page=v}}</ref> In 1903, another school catalogue, besides "the unrivalled beauty of the surrounding scenery" and "the remarkable healthfulness of the vicinity," commented on "the high moral fiber of the community and its superior educational advantages", all of which made Clinton "a most highly favored place for mental and moral culture."<ref name=Houghton>{{cite book
|page=20
|title=Forty-Second Annual Catalogue of Houghton Seminary, Clinton, Oneida County, N.Y.
|year=1903
|publisher=Held by [[Clinton Historical Society (Clinton, New York)|Clinton Historical Society]]}}</ref>

== History ==
[[File:Clinton, N.Y. - L.R. Burleigh, Troy, N.Y. ; Beck & Pauli, Litho. Milwaukee, Wis. LCCN2013645371.tif|thumb|1885 [[lithograph]] of Clinton with sights identified drawn by [[L.R. Burleigh]]]]

Part of Coxe's Patent, 6th division, Clinton began in March 1787 when [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] veterans from [[Plymouth, Connecticut]], settled in Clinton. Pioneer [Moses Foote<ref>From the Foote family, comprising the Geneology and History of Nathaniel Foote of Wethersfield, Conn. and his descendants. of 2 primary source edition Volume 1. By Abram William Foote</ref>] brought seven other families with him to the area. The new inhabitants found good soil, plentiful forests, and friendly in southern Kirkland along with [[Oneida people]], who passed through on trail [sic].
Named after New York's first governor, [[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]], fourth Vice President of the United States and an uncle of [[Erie Canal]] builder and New York governor [[DeWitt Clinton]], the village had a gristmill on the [[Oriskany Creek]] on College Street the first year and slowly developed as a farming and mercantile center.

In 1793, [[Presbyterian minister]] Rev. [[Samuel Kirkland]] founded [[Hamilton-Oneida Academy]] as a seminary to serve as part of his [[missionary]] work with the [[Oneida tribe]]. The seminary admitted both white and Oneida boys, although no Oneida boys lasted more than one year.{{sfn|Gridley|1874|p=123}}
Kirkland named it in honor of [[Treasury Secretary]] [[Alexander Hamilton]], who was a member of the first Board of Trustees of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy.<ref>"Hamilton had championed a humane, enlightened policy toward the Indians...Through his interest in educating native Americans, Hamilton's name came to adorn a college." ([[Ron Chernow]], ''Alexander Hamilton'', 2004, p. 337).</ref> The Academy became Hamilton College in 1812, making it the third oldest college in New York, after [[Columbia University|Columbia]] and [[Union College|Union]], after it expanded to a four-year college curriculum.

Originally in the [[Whitestown, New York|Town of Whitestown]] and then the [[Paris, New York|Town of Paris]], Clinton became part of the newly formed Town of Kirkland in 1827, and became an incorporated village in April 1843 with its own board of trustees, officials, employees, and status as a taxing jurisdiction.

According to Gordon's 1836 ''Gazetteer'', Clinton had 50 dwellings, six stores, four taverns, two clothing works, a worsted factory, a grist mill, three churches (Universalist, Baptist, and Congregational), two academies, and two seminaries.<ref name=Williams1>{{cite book
|title=Kirkland since 1827
|first=Richard L.
|last=Williams
|location=Clinton, New York
|publisher=Clinton Historical Society
|year=2002}}</ref>{{rp|10}}

[[Elihu Root]], [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] under President McKinley and [[United States Secretary of War|Secretary of War]] under presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, was born in a building on the Hamilton College campus, and is probably Clinton's most famous son.

Although never a factory town, Clinton did have the Clinton Knitting Company on the site of the Clinton House Apartments on Kirkland Avenue in the first half of the 20th century, as well as the Clinton Canning Company to process local vegetables in the late summer and fall.

The pharmaceutical company [[Bristol-Myers Squibb]] began as the Clinton Pharmaceutical Company in 1887 on the second floor of 3-5 West Park Row and moved to [[Syracuse, New York|Syracuse]] after three years. Both founders, [[William McLaren Bristol|William Bristol]] and [[John Ripley Myers|John Myers]], graduated from [[Hamilton College]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Clinton Historical Society|title=Some history about Clinton, NY|url=http://www.clintonhistory.org/about/history/|access-date=June 5, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206160317/http://clintonhistory.org/about/history/|archive-date=February 6, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Attractions ==
[[File:Kirkland Town Library, in Clinton, New York.jpg|thumb|right|[[Kirkland Town Library]] in Clinton]]
[[File:Clinton Cider Mill.jpg|thumb|Clinton Cider Mill, a local institution<ref>{{cite magazine
|title=Sweet Memories at the Clinton Cider Mill
|first=Patricia
|last=Hogan
|magazine=Clinton Historical Society Newsletter
|date=November 2023
|page=4}}</ref>]]
[[File:Tony's, a restsurant in Clinton, New York.jpg|thumb|right|Tony's, a restaurant in Clinton]]

The village centers around the Village Green, a park where many community events take place.<ref>{{cite web |title=Shopping, Lodging, Dining Map and Directory |url=http://villageofclinton.com/map/clintonMap.pdf |website=villageofclinton.com |access-date=April 1, 2019}}</ref> Annual events on and around the Village Green include a summer farmers market,<ref>{{cite web |title=Farmers Market |url=https://clintonnychamber.org/farmers-market/#!form/NewFMVendor |website=Clinton Chamber of Commerce |access-date=April 1, 2019}}</ref> the Shopper's Stroll during the weekend after Thanksgiving,<ref>{{cite web |title=Shoppers' Stroll & Holiday Parade |url=https://clintonnychamber.org/shoppers-stroll-holiday-parade/ |website=Clinton Chamber of Commerce |access-date=April 1, 2019}}</ref> and the Clinton Art and Music festival in August.<ref>{{cite web |title=Art & Music Festival |url=https://clintonnychamber.org/art-music-festival/ |website=Clinton Chamber of Commerce |access-date=April 1, 2019}}</ref> The Kirkland Art Center also hosts many activities throughout the year, including the KAC Road Race. The historic Clinton Cider Mill, a local favorite on Elm Street, has been producing [[Apple cider|cider]] since the early 1900s and is open seasonally from Labor Day through Thanksgiving.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us|url=https://www.clintoncidermill.com/our-history/|website=www.clintoncidermill.com |access-date=April 1, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Visit the Clinton Cider Mill|url=https://www.clintoncidermill.com/visiting/|website=clintoncidermill.com |date=June 2, 2020 |access-date=April 1, 2022}}</ref>

The [[Clinton Village Historic District (Clinton, New York)|Clinton Historic District]] is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. There is also an active [[Clinton Historical Society (Clinton, New York)|Clinton Historical Society]].

==Education==
The [[Clinton Central School District]] covers Clinton and most of the surrounding [[Kirkland, New York|town of Kirkland]]..<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st36_ny/schooldistrict_maps/c36065_oneida/DC20SD_C36065.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Oneida County, NY|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2024-10-07}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st36_ny/schooldistrict_maps/c36065_oneida/DC20SD_C36065_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref> Its campus is near the center of Clinton.

[[Hamilton College]] is adjacent to the village, in the town of Kirkland.<ref name=CDPMapClinton/>

=== History of education ===
{{See also|Clinton Liberal Institute}}
In the 19th century, Clinton was known as a "village of schools"<ref>{{cite news
|title=Anniversary Exercises of Clinton Liberal Institute
|newspaper=The Christian Leader
|location=New York, New York
|date=June 28, 1873
|page=6
|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123314288/exercises-at-the-clinton-liberal/}}</ref> and was sometimes called "Schooltown"<ref name=Rudd>{{cite book
|title=A Century of Schools in Clinton
|first=Helen Neilson
|last=Rudd
|location=Clinton, New York
|publisher=Clinton Historical Society
|year=1964}}</ref>{{rp|1}} and described as "an Academic village."<ref>{{cite book
|title=Catalogue of Clinton Grammar School 1876–77
|page=23}}</ref> The prosperity and reputation of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy had drawn public attention to Clinton as a place of education.<ref name="Historical"/> It had numerous private schools, some day schools and some boarding, some secondary, of which there was no public school until 1891,<ref>{{cite journal
|pages=117–121, at p. 120
|title=Clinton's Schools
|journal=Hamilton Alumni Review
|volume=2
|date=May 1937}}</ref> and some primary.<ref name=More>{{cite news
|title=More on the Clinton Liberal Institute
|date=August 2003
|newspaper=Clinton Historical Society Newsletter
|pages=3–4}}</ref> The largest building in town was a school (the [[Clinton Liberal Institute]]). A survey lists 37 schools, not counting Hamilton College, that operated in Clinton between 1790 (?) and 1915.<ref name=Rudd/>{{rp|23–27}} A later list has 60, noting that "many...were in...the stately homes throughout the town;<ref name=Cittadino/>{{rp|7}} A subsequent list located 70.<ref>{{cite book
|title=Private Schools of Clinton ranging from 1794 to 2005
|first=Richard L.
|last=Williams
|date=September 2005
|publisher=Clinton Historical Society}}</ref> Some of these were small, one-room schools, often short-lived, and not much information survives on them.<ref name=Rudd/>{{rp|21}}

Prior to the passage of the New York State Compulsory School Law of 1894, about half of the town's school-age children attended a school.<ref name=Cittadino/>{{rp|58}}

As put in 1878:

{{blockquote|The village of Clinton is remarkable for its healthful attractiveness, and the various educational institutions in and around it have given it a classical [educated] air, and elevated and refined the morals of the community where they are located. Truly, Clinton may be proud of the course she has taken in laying firm foundations for the education of the youth of the land.<ref name=Everts/>{{rp|228}}}}

There was a public elementary or grammar school on East Park Row, which in 1802 was replaced by a brick building and in 1839 by a larger wood structure.<ref name=Kirkland/>{{rp|12}}<ref name=Wiley/>

[[File:Hamilton-Oneida Academy, Clinton, N.Y.jpg|thumb|left|Hamilton-Oneida Academy]]

From 1793 to 1812 the Hamilton–Oneida Academy, forerunner of [[Hamilton College]] (1812), operated in what would later become Clinton.
Its three-story building, torn down in 1830<ref name=Steeple>{{cite book
|title=A View from the Steeple. The Founding and Growth of Stone Church, Hamilton College, and the Village of Clinton
|first=Midge
|last=Bakos
|editor-first=Mary Ann
|editor-last=Stiefvater
|year=2023
|publisher=The Presbyterian Society of Clinton
|isbn=9798858411802}}</ref>{{rp|81}} or 1832,<ref>{{cite book
|page=255
|title=Documentary History of Hamilton College
|location=Clinton, New York
|publisher=[[Hamilton College]]
|chapter=The Campus in 1868
|year=1922}}</ref> became the original building of the college.

Between the closing of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1812 and the opening of the Clinton Grammar School a "classical" (college preparatory) school operated at what is today (2023) the oldest house in Clinton, at 29 West Park Row.<ref>{{cite news
|title=What's the Oldest House in Clinton
|page=5
|newspaper=Clinton Historical Society Newsletter
|date=February 2019}}</ref>

[[File:Clinton Grammar School.jpg|thumb|Original building of the Clinton Grammar School; a second building was added later]]
In 1813 the Clinton Grammar School was founded; it was chartered in 1815. Under four different names, including Rural High School and Clinton Military Academy,<ref>{{cite book
|page=17
|title=Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Clinton Grammar School at Clinton, Oneida County, N.Y., for the Year Ending June 10, 1885
|year=1885
|publisher=Held by the Clinton Historical Society}}</ref> it survived until 1892 and was primarily in two buildings at 86–88 College St., though in 1891 it consolidated with Kirkland Hall (see below) and met there.<ref name=Forty/>{{rp|12}} The school was considered a "classical school", meaning it prepared students for college.<ref name=Grammar/> Sometimes it had a "Female Department"<ref name=Rudd/>{{rp|7}} [[Elihu Root]], [[Mark Hopkins (educator)|Mark Hopkins]], and [[Grover Cleveland]] all studied there.<ref name=Cittadino/>{{rp|51}}<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20230810133020/https://clintonhistory.pastperfectonline.com/photo/41C759E7-9B78-449F-9EB0-608727519495 Link to picture of Clinton Grammar School]</ref> It was torn down in 1900.<ref name=Steeple/>{{rp|119}}

From 1814 to 1856 the Royce Academy was a boarding and day school for young ladies. Its last location was the former Royce mansion, at the intersection of Kirkland and Chenango Avenues.<ref name=Cittadino/>{{rp|57}}<ref name=Everts/>{{rp|222}}<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20230810121821/https://clintonhistory.pastperfectonline.com/Photo/DF348600-BFFE-4A4C-ADBC-259032122008#gallery Link to picture of Royce Academy]</ref> It closed upon the death of Miss Nancy Royce, an invalid who was the main instructor.{{sfn|Gridley|1874|pp=136–137}} "Two or three Indian girls, of the [[Stockbridge–Munsee Community|Stockbridge tribe]], were at one time members of this school."{{sfn|Gridley|1874|p=135}}

[[File:Clinton Liberal Institute.jpg|thumb|300px|Drawing of the main (male) building of the Clinton Liberal Institute, published in ''Historical Collections of the State of New York'' in 1842. At that date Clinton had not yet been incorporated, so it is described as being in the [[Kirkland, New York|town of Kirkland]].]]
The [[Clinton Liberal Institute]] was a coeducational preparatory school founded by the [[Universalist Church]], operating at the corner of Utica and Mulberry Streets from 1831 to 1878, and then in [[Fort Plain, New York|Fort Plain]] until destroyed by fire in 1900.<ref>{{cite journal
|title=A Schooltown Romance
|first=Mike
|last=Revenaugh
|journal=Clinton Historical Society Newsletter
|date=February 2023
|pages=1–2, 5}}</ref> An advertisement in 1841 reveals that it had a female department, and among the subjects taught were Greek, Hebrew, French, Astronomy, and Moral Philosophy.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Clinton Liberal Institute
|newspaper=[[Utica Observer]]
|date=May 4, 1841
|page=3
|url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031902/1841-05-04/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=01%2F01%2F1820&index=4&date2=12%2F31%2F1850}}</ref> The Female Department was located at 12 Utica Street until 1851, then moved to 13 Chestnut Street, across from William Street.<ref name=Kirkland>{{cite book
|title=Kirkland since 1827
|first=Richard L.
|last=Williams
|location=Clinton, New York
|year=2002
|publisher=Clinton Historical Society}}</ref>{{rp|11}} In this latter location it was also known as the White Seminary. After the Institute moved to Fort Plain, this building housed Kirkland Hall, a school for boys.<ref>{{cite book
|page=21
|title=The Annual. Kirkland Hall School for Boys, 1884. Clinton, N.Y.
|year=1884
|publisher=Held by the [[Clinton Historical Society (Clinton, New York)|Clinton Historical Society]].}}</ref>

In 1833, Rev. [[Hiram H. Kellogg]], a Presbyterian minister, [[abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]],<ref>{{cite book
|page=9
|title="With Courage and Honor": Oneida County's Role in the Civil War
|location=Utica, New York
|publisher=Ethnic Heritage Studies Center, Utica College
|year=2010
|isbn=978-0-9660363-7-4
|editor-first1=James S.
|editor-last1=Pula
|editor-first2=Cheryl A.
|editor-last2=Pula}}</ref> Hamilton College graduate, and good friend of [[Gerrit Smith]], opened in Clinton a Young Ladies' Domestic Seminary, also called the Clinton Female Seminary and the Clinton Seminary,<ref name= Black>{{cite news
|title=Black Girls Attended Kellogg's School
|page=5
|newspaper=Clinton Historical Society Newsletter
|date=September 2015}}</ref> a counterpart to some extent to the all-male [[Oneida Institute]].<ref>{{cite book
|page=13
|title=Exercises in commemoration of the founding of Knox College, held in Galesburg, Illinois, Thursday, February the fifteenth, MDCCCXCIV
|publisher=[[Knox College (Illinois)|Knox College]]
|location=[[Galesburg, Illinois]]
|date=1894}}</ref> Like the Institute, it admitted students of all skin colors:<ref name=Black/><ref>{{cite news
|title=Slave Daughter Goes to School Here
|page=2
|newspaper=Clinton Historical Society Newsletter
|date=May 2016}}</ref> three Negro girls.<ref name=Williams/><ref name=Williams1/>{{rp|12}}<ref name=Kirkland/>{{rp|12}} Another gives the number of Negro students as seven.<ref name=Miles>{{cite journal
|title=Mary E. Bibb, Clinton alum
|first=Mike
|last=Revenaugh
|page=4
|journal=Clinton Historical Society Newsletter
|date=February 2024}}</ref> The first was [[Mary E. Bibb]], who became a teacher.<ref name=Miles/> Another was [[Louisa Matilda Jacobs]], daughter of author [[Harriet Jacobs]].<ref>{{cite book
|title=Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself
|editor-first1=L. Maria
|editor-last1=Child
|editor-link1=L. Maria Child
|editor-first2=Jean Fagan
|editor-last2=Yellin
|first=Harriet A.
|last=Jacobs
|author-link=Harriet A. Jacobs
|editor-link2=Jean Fagan Yellin
|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts
|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]
|year=2000
|page=308}}</ref> A native American, [[Electa Quinney]], also studied there, as did [[Elizabeth Smith Miller]], daughter of [[Gerrit Smith]] (1835–1836).<ref name=Ballots/>{{rp|18}} A [[manual labor school]],<ref name=Ballots/>{{rp|18}} it was located at 23 Kellogg Street, on the corner of Mulberry.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Rev. Hiram H. Kellogg—Clinton Abolitionist
|newspaper=Clinton Historical Society Newsletter
|page=5
|date=October 2017}}</ref> The students spent "a portion of each day" on "domestic avocations...to prepare them to run a household."<ref name=Williams>{{cite news
|title=Teacher of Blacks
|first=Richard L.
|last=Williams
|newspaper=Clinton Courier
|date=October 11, 2009}}</ref> This was interrupted in 1841; he became President of [[Knox College (Illinois)|Knox College]]. Over 500 young ladies were educated in the eight years preceding his departure for Knox.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Letter of President H H Kellogg to the President of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society
|last=Kellogg
|first=H. H.
|orig-date=September 15, 1847
|date=October 19, 1847
|newspaper=[[Western Citizen]]
|location=Chicago
|url=https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=WEC18471019-01.2.11.1&srpos=1&e=--1847---1847--en-20-WEC-1--txt-txIN-Clinton---------}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|page=2, col. 8
|title=(Untitled)
|location=Chicago
|newspaper=Western Citizen
|date=November 2, 1847
|url=https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=WEC18471102-01.2.12.2&srpos=13&e=--1847---1847--en-20-WEC-1--txt-txIN-Clinton---------}}</ref> The school, an inspiration for the seminary at [[Monticello, Illinois]], the [[Mount Holyoke Seminary]], and the Female Departments of Knox, Oberlin, and [[Elmira College]],<ref name=Everts/>{{rp|228}}{{sfn|Gridley|1874|p=143}} reopened less successfully from 1847 to 1850, after which it merged with the Clinton Grammar School.{{sfn|Gridley|1874|p=143}} The original building survives.<ref>{{cite book
|pages=20–21
|title=Sights of Historic Clinton
|first=Palmer
|last=Fargnoli
|year=1987}}</ref>

In 1841, the [[Free Will Baptists]] purchased the building previously occupied by Kellogg's Seminary, and established the Clinton Seminary.<ref name=Everts>{{cite book
|title=History of Oneida County, New York. With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers
|location=Philadelphia
|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofoneidac00unse/page/n237/mode/1up
|publisher=Everts and Fariss
|year=1878}}</ref>{{rp|223}} The Clinton Seminary began publication of a paper called the ''Clinton Seminary Advocate''.<ref>{{cite news
|title=All sorts of paragraphs
|newspaper=[[Utica Observer]]
|date=December 21, 1841
|page=2
|url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031902/1841-12-21/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=01%2F01%2F1820&index=0&date2=12%2F31%2F1850&words=Clinton+Seminary&to_year2=1850}}</ref> When the school enrollment outgrew the building's capacity it removed to the vacant [[Oneida Institute]] buildings and became the Whitestown Seminary.<ref name=Everts/>{{rp|223}} The former Kellogg's Seminary buildings were reopened as a private school by [[Pelatiah Rawson]], previously of the [[Oneida Institute]], but Rawson's health led it, within three years, to close (or rather, change ownership and name).<ref name=Everts/>{{rp|228}}<ref name=Rudd/>{{rp|20}}

In 1844, the Clinton Grammar School, Clinton Liberal Institute, Clinton Seminary, and Hamilton Academy, all being under the supervision of the [[New York State Board of Regents]] which made them eligible, received state appropriations of $48.84, $274.01, $387.95, and $225.18 respectively. No other village in the area had as many recipient institutions, Together with the [[Oneida Institute]], which received $86.82, other Oneida institutions made it the leading county.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Distribution of the Income of the Literature Fund
|newspaper=[[Rome Sentinel]]
|location=[[Rome, New York]]
|date=March 12, 1844
|page=2
|url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031885/1844-03-12/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=01%2F01%2F1820&index=1&date2=12%2F31%2F1850}}</ref> The Clinton Liberal Institute, along with other military subjects, offered [[fencing]].<ref>{{cite news
|title=Clinton Liberal Institute
|newspaper=[[Rome Sentinel]]
|date=April 30, 1844
|location=[[Rome, New York]]
|page=3
|url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031885/1844-04-30/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=01%2F01%2F1820&index=2&date2=12%2F31%2F1850&words=Clinton+Liberal&to_year2=1850}}</ref> In 1846, the Clinton Grammar School, Clinton Liberal Institute, and Hamilton Academy received state appropriations of $302.20, $369.35, and $271.67 respectively.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Distribution of the Literature Fund
|newspaper=[[Rome Sentinel]]
|location=[[Rome, New York]]
|date=February 27, 1846
|page=6
|url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031885/1846-02-27/ed-1/seq-6/#date1=01%2F01%2F1820&index=1&date2=12%2F31%2F1850&words=Academy+Hamilton&to_year2=1850}}</ref> In 1847, the Clinton Grammar School, Clinton Liberal Institute, and Clinton Academy received state appropriations ($262.89, $360.05, $45.73 respectively).<ref>{{cite news
|title=Distribution of the Literature Fund
|newspaper=[[Northern State Journal]]
|date=May 19, 1847
|page=3
|url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn85054388/1847-05-19/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=01%2F01%2F1820&index=14&date2=12%2F31%2F1850
|location=[[Watertown, N.Y.]]}}</ref> The Clinton Grammar School received a state appropriation of $25 in 1849,<ref>{{cite news
|title=Literature Fund
|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123089012/literature-fund-female-seminaries/
|newspaper=[[The Buffalo Commercial]]
|date=March 5, 1849
|page=2}}</ref> and $105.36 in 1869.<ref>{{cite news
|url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FLogin_18%2FTroy%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Whig%2FTroy%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Whig%25201869%2FTroy%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Whig%25201869%2520-%25200082.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffebbff3c5%26stgd%3Dyes%26DocId%3D3856480%26request%3D%2522Clinton%2520grammar%2520school%2522%26index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520E%26searchFlags%3D16783616%26autoStopLimit%3D50%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FLogin_18%2FTroy%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Whig%2FTroy%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Whig%25201869%2FTroy%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Whig%25201869%2520-%25200082.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffebbff3c5%26stgd%3Dyes%26DocId%3D3856480%26request%3D%2522Clinton%2520grammar%2520school%2522%26index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520E%26searchFlags%3D16783616%26autoStopLimit%3D50%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false
|title=The Literature Fund
|date=January 27, 1869
|newspaper=[[Troy Daily Whig]]}}</ref> In 1873 the Clinton Grammar School and the Clinton Liberal Institute each received $149.23.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Literature Fund
|newspaper=Madison County Times
|url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FChittenango%2520NY%2520Madison%2520County%2520Times%2FChittenango%2520NY%2520Madison%2520County%2520Times%2520%25201873-1877%2520Grayscale%2FChittenango%2520NY%2520Madison%2520County%2520Times%2520%25201873-1877%2520Grayscale%2520-%25200060.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D4246b992%26stgd%3Dyes%26DocId%3D325211%26request%3D%2522Clinton%2520grammar%2520school%2522%26index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520E%26searchFlags%3D16783616%26autoStopLimit%3D50%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FChittenango%2520NY%2520Madison%2520County%2520Times%2FChittenango%2520NY%2520Madison%2520County%2520Times%2520%25201873-1877%2520Grayscale%2FChittenango%2520NY%2520Madison%2520County%2520Times%2520%25201873-1877%2520Grayscale%2520-%25200060.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D4246b992%26stgd%3Dyes%26DocId%3D325211%26request%3D%2522Clinton%2520grammar%2520school%2522%26index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520E%26searchFlags%3D16783616%26autoStopLimit%3D50%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false
|year=1873}}</ref>

In 1849, an advertisement reveals that Miss Catherine Hopkins, for some years Principal of the Female Department of the Hamilton Academy, was running a Young Ladies' Seminary, where Latin, Greek, French, German, and Italian could be studied.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Young Ladies' Seminary
|newspaper=[[Utica Daily Observer]]
|date=August 20, 1849
|page=2
|url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031899/1849-08-20/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=01%2F01%2F1820}}</ref>

[[File:Houghton Seminary, Clinton, New York.jpg|thumb|left|Houghton Seminary]]
{{Anchor|Houghton Seminary}}
In 1854, a Home Cottage Seminary was founded, at 23 Chestnut St., "at the west end of Chestnut Street,"<ref name=Strangers>{{citation
|page=3
|title=How Do Strangers Look at Clinton?
|newspaper=Clinton Historical Society Newsletter
|date=December 2010}}</ref> on the corner of Franklin Avenue, by Louisa M. Barker, previously Principal of the Female Department of the Clinton Liberal Institute.<ref name=Everts/>{{rp|228}}{{sfn|Gridley|1874|p=144}} In 1861 it changed ownership and its name was changed to the Houghton Seminary (the maiden name of the associate principal and wife of the principal, Dr. John Chester Gallup, replaced in 1880 for health reasons by Prof. and Mrs. A. G. Benedict.<ref name=Forty/>{{rp|6}}). Its grounds occupied 20 acres.{{sfn|Gridley|1874|p=145}} In 1874 its enrollment was 90{{sfn|Gridley|1874|p=145}}—boys were one quarter of the enrollment<ref name=Cittadino/>{{rp|54}}—and it was described as "in all respects highly prosperous."<ref>{{cite book
|title=Kirkland Scene. Houghton Seminary Part 2
|first=Richard L.
|last=Williams
|publisher=Held by [[Clinton Historical Society (Clinton, New York)|Clinton Historical Sciety]]}}</ref> It had both an Academic and a Collegiate (college preparatory) Program.<ref name=Steeple/>{{rp|122}}Its students were allowed to use the geological and chemical laboratories, the "philosophical [scientific] apparatus," and the library of Hamilton College.<ref name=Houghton/> Hamilton faculty gave courses of lectures in chemistry, anatomy, and physiology.<ref>{{cite book
|page=13
|title=Eighth Annual Catalogue of Houghton Seminary, Clinton, N.Y. 1868–9
|year=1869
|publisher=Held by [[Clinton Historical Society (Clinton, N.Y.)|Clinton Historical Society]].}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
|page=13
|title=Thirteenth Annual Catalogue of Houghton Seminary, Clinton, N.Y.
|year=1974
|publisher=Held by [[Clinton Historical Society (Clinton, New York)|Clinton Historical Society]]}}</ref> [[Grover Cleveland]]'s sister and niece attended.<ref>{{cite journal
|page=23
|journal=Houghton Record
|volume=18
|number=1
|date=January 1899
|title=Houghton Seminary}}</ref><ref name=Steeple/>{{rp|126}} Graduates of the college preparatory course were guaranteed admission, "without examination", to [[Smith College]].<ref>{{cite book
|title=Kirkland Scene [Part 5]
|first=Richard L.|last=Williams
|year=2016
|publisher=Held by the [[Clinton Historical Society (Clinton, New York)|Clinton Historical Society]]}}</ref> Starting about 1882, alumnae published the ''Houghton Record'', 4 numbers per year in 1902. Houghton closed in 1903;<ref name=Kirkland/>{{rp|30}}<ref name=Schools/>{{rp|118}} [[Elihu Root]] was the final graduation speaker.<ref>{{cite journal
|title=Commencement
|page=3
|volume=21
|number=4
|date=July 1903
|journal=Houghton Record}}</ref> Its books were given to the [[Kirkland Town Library]].<ref>''Journal of Regents Minutes,'' December 14, 1905 (excerpt held by [[Clinton Historical Society (Clinton, New York)|Clinton Historical Society]]).</ref> The building was torn down in 1912.<ref name=Forty/>{{rp|35}} At the time the name changed in 1861, the original founder, Miss Barker, set up a new, separate Home Seminary, known as the Cottage Seminary, on College Street.<ref name=History>{{cite book
|title=History of Oneida County, New York : from 1700 to the present time
|last=Cookinham
|first=Henry J.
|date=1912
|location=Chicago, Illinois
|page=367}}</ref>{{sfn|Gridley|1874|p=144}} In 1878 it had an enrollment of 14 boarders;<ref name=Everts/>{{rp|229}} by 1890 this had risen to twenty.<ref>{{cite book
|title=Cottage Seminary, Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y. A Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies
|location=Utica, New York
|year=1890
|publisher=Held by the [[Clinton Historical Society (Clinton, New York)|Clinton Historical Society]]
|page=12}}</ref> It occupied the same campus as the Clinton Central Middle School, and was said to have the most attractive campus of all of Clinton's schools.<ref name=Foley/>{{rp|53}}

In 1858, a one-man Law School that was operated in Clinton by Theodore Dwight, son of Benjamin Dwight (see below), at Hamilton College was moved to New York City, "where it will be maintained in connection with Columbia College."<ref>{{cite news
|title=Removed to Columbia College
|newspaper=Utica Daily Observer
|date=September 27, 1858
|page=3
|url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031899/1858-09-27/ed-1/seq-3/}}</ref><ref name=Steeple/>{{rp|138}}

In 1860, a "picturesque" Rural High School, occupying 18 acres at Elm St. and Norton Avenue (at the time Factory Street), operated in Clinton.<ref>{{cite news
|title=The Family and Atlas
|newspaper=[[Utica Daily Observer]]
|date=May 29, 1860
|page=2
|url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031899/1860-05-29/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=01%2F01%2F1850}}</ref> It had a large gymnasium and a bowling alley, and was described by "all who saw it as one of the largest and finest buildings in the county".{{sfn|Gridley|1874|p=145}} It operated from 1858 to 1865, when the building burned, after which it moved into the building of the Clinton Grammar School.<ref>{{citation
|page=4
|title=No 'Bad Boys' Need Apply to the Rural High School
|newspaper=Clinton Historical Society Newsletter
|date=May 2005}}</ref> In 1873 enrollment was about 70. It was operated by Rev. [[Benjamin W. Dwight]],<ref>{{cite book
|page=127
|title=Things Worth Knowing about Oneida County
|first1=W. W.
|last1=Canfield
|first2=J. E.
|last2=Clark
|location=Utica, New York
|publisher=Thomas J. Griffiths
|year=1909}}</ref> who previously operated it in [[Brooklyn, N.Y.]]<ref name=Rudd/>{{rp|8}} Maximum enrollment was 80, of whom 53 were boarders. It was for boys only,<ref name=Strangers/> although towards the end, Dwight also ran Dwight's School for Young Ladies, "an English, French, and German Boarding School."<ref>{{cite book
|title=Dwight's School for Young Ladies. An English, French, German Boarding School at Clinton, Oneida Co., New York
|publisher=The Clinton Historical Society owns this.
|year=1876}}</ref>{{sfn|Gridley|1874|p=145}} It closed in 1882.<ref name=Forty>{{cite book
|title=Forty Years of Clinton History
|orig-date=1915
|date=2003
|publisher=[[Clinton Historical Society (Clinton, New York)]]}}</ref>{{rp|5}}<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20230810132524/https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_1130/018/20001311.jpg Link to picture of Dwight's Rural High School. Note students in the windows.]</ref>

From 1861 to 1896 a Cottage School for girls, later renamed the Cottage Seminary, operated on the west side of current Chenango Avenue, at College Street. It was a combination boarding and day school.<ref name=Cittadino>{{cite book
|title=Clinton and the Town of Kirkland
|first1=Faye
|last1=Cittadino
|first2=Frank
|last2=Cittadino
|date=September 7, 2023
|location=Charleston, South Carolina
|publisher=Arcadia
|isbn=9780738576800}}</ref>{{rp|55}} In 1898 it was converted into the Clinton Preparatory School, for boys, which operated until 1908.<ref name=Schools/>{{rp|119–120}}

Additional schools operating at this time included Miss Mary Brown's School on College Street, and Miss Louisa Pond's Select School (1830s–1840s).<ref name=Kirkland/>{{rp|12}} Miss Katherine Lee conducted in her home a school for young children from 1905 to 1912;<ref name=Schools/>{{rp|120}} another source says it closed in 1906.<ref name=Kirkland/>{{rp|30}} Mrs. Elizabeth Marr's Select School, established in 1861, located finally at 8 Meadow St., continued late into the 1870s; in 1873 the enrollment was 26.{{sfn|Gridley|1874|p=147}} Mrs. Chloe R. Garlinghouse's school on Marvin Street operated from 1876 to 1891. Miss Martha Mears's school on College Street was operated in the 1880s. Miss Anna Sykes conducted her Music School on Dwight Avenue for a number of years from 1872. Rev. Benjamin Dwight opened his home for a girls' school from 1865 to 1889.<ref name=Schools/>{{rp|120}}

In 1882 a school for boys, named Kirkland Hall, opened in the former White Seminary, vacant since the Clinton Liberal Institute moved to Fort Plain. It operated until 1889.<ref name=Schools/>{{rp|118}}<ref name=Forty/>{{rp|10}} It had an affiliated fraternity chapter, [[Theta Phi]]. Another source says that in 1886, the Flint Brothers "reopened the Anderson school in the old Institute."<ref name=Forty/>{{rp|7}}

In 1884 a boarding and day school for girls was established, in a new building at the north-east corner of Marvin and Chestnut Streets.<ref name=Forty/>{{rp|6}} It was first named the Florence Seminary, then renamed Huntington Hall. It closed in 1888,<ref name=Schools/>{{rp|120}} the students moving to the Houghton Seminary.<ref name=Forty/>{{rp|10}}

In 1873, there were in Clinton "two Schools for young gentlemen, and three for young ladies,.<ref>{{cite book
|title=Twenty-Fifth Annual Circular of the Rural High School at Clinton, Oneida County, N. Y. A Boarding School for Boys
|location=Utica, New York
|date=1873
|page=4
|publisher=The Clinton Historical Society owns a copy.}}</ref> In 1887, there were in Clinton three seminaries for young ladies, two high schools for young men, and one select and two common schools for children.<ref>{{citation
|title=What Composed the Clinton of 1887
|newspaper=Clinton Historical Society Newsletter
|date=March 2013
|page=4}}</ref> In 1889, it was described as "a village of Grammar {{sic}} schools and ladies' seminaries."<ref name="sketch7"/>

In 1891, Clinton's public school started to offer classes in grades 1 through 12.<ref name=Kirkland/>{{rp|20}} 191 pupils enrolled on opening day.<ref name=Forty/>{{rp|13}} In 1893, the opening of the Clinton Union School and Academy, on Marvin Street,<ref>{{citation
|title=Recycling Clinton Buildings – Beginning a series
|page=4
|newspaper=Clinton Historical Society Newsletter
|date=January 2012}}</ref> ended the need for private secondary schools, although the Clinton Preparatory School, described as "military,"<ref name=Kirkland/>{{rp|30}} occupying the facilities of the former Cottage Seminary on the site of today's (2023) Middle School, lasted from 1873 until 1913.<ref name=Grammar>{{cite news
|title=Grammar School
|newspaper=Clinton Historical Society Newsletter
|date=August 2001
|page=3}}</ref> It used the 2nd floor of the [[Kirkland Town Library]] as its gymnasium.<ref name=Foley>{{cite book
|title=Glancing Back at Clinton and Neighboring Communities "the way it used to be"
|first1=Annette
|last1=Foley
|first2=John
|last2=Menard
|first3=David
|last3=Dupont
|editor-first=George
|editor-last=Searles
|publisher=Clinton Central School District Foundation
|year=1993
|isbn=1879511134}}</ref>{{rp|36}} From 1920 to 1923 the 7th Day Adventist Church operated a boarding school for grades 7–10, called the Eastern New York Academy, on Brimfield Street.<ref name=Kirkland/>{{rp|30}} [https://clintonhistory.pastperfectonline.com/photo/2BA9D683-954C-4787-B5E4-341547908616 Link to 1998 picture of house which housed the Eastern New York Academy]

== Sports ==
The [[Clinton Arena]] was home to the [[Clinton Comets]] of the [[Eastern Hockey League]], which ended play at the arena in 1973. Portions of the movie ''[[Slap Shot]]'' were filmed at the famed Clinton Arena. The Clinton High School hockey program is widely regarded as one of the best in New York State, despite the small size of the school. The team won back-to-back state championships twice, in 1994–1995 and 1995–1996 and again in 2004–2005 and 2005–2006.

In 2005 and 2006, Clinton's Cross Country team won back-to-back scholar athlete state championships.

In 1984, Clinton's football team went to the [[Carrier Dome]] beating V.V.S. in the semi-final, 3-0 and became Section 3 Class B Co-Champion along with Bishop Grimes since the game ended in a tie, 0-0.

Clinton's boys' soccer program won their first Section III title in 2006, and a second in 2011, for the first time advancing to the state semi-finals, as well as an undefeated regular season. It is also noted that they are among the top contenders for the Center-State Conference Championship every year.
Clinton track and field is also well known in the area.

==Geography==
Clinton is located at {{Coord|43|2|56|N|75|22|49|W|type:city}} (43.048852, -75.380250).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=April 23, 2011|date=February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the village has a total area of {{convert|0.6|sqmi|km2}}, all land.

The village is east of the [[Oriskany Creek]].

The village is the location of one of the several "knob and kettle structure" [[kame]]s located along the Oriskany valley,{{sfn|Miller|1970|p=95}}{{sfn|Dale|1953|p=159}} named The Knob.
In 1836 its then owner, William T. Richmond, donated it to the [[Clinton Liberal Institute]].{{sfn|Gridley|1874|p=139}}
Richmond's intent was that, with the accompaniment of {{USD|800|year=1836}} worth of equipment donated by a R. W. Haskins of Buffalo, the Institute could build an [[observatory]] on the hill, but this plan never came to fruition.{{sfn|Gridley|1874|p=139}}

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1870= 1640
|1880= 1236
|1890= 1269
|1900= 1340
|1910= 1236
|1920= 1270
|1930= 1475
|1940= 1478
|1950= 1630
|1960= 1855
|1970= 2271
|1980= 2107
|1990= 2238
|2000= 1952
|2010= 1942
|2020= 1683
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
}}
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=January 31, 2008 |title=U.S. Census website }}</ref> of 2000, there were 1,952 people, 922 households, and 488 families residing in the village. The population density was {{convert|3,349.4|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 965 housing units at an average density of {{convert|1,655.8|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the village was 98.05% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.61% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.72% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.26% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 0.36% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] people of any race were 1.33% of the population.

There were 922 households, out of which 25.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.8% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 6.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 47.0% were non-families. 41.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 20.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.11 and the average family size was 2.94.

In the village, the population was spread out, with 22.7% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 23.0% from 25 to 44, 27.4% from 45 to 64, and 19.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females, there were 88.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 82.8 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $41,958, and the median income for a family was $66,685. Males had a median income of $45,750 versus $31,369 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the village was $26,165. About 3.1% of families and 9.7% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 4.7% of those under age 18 and 12.2% of those age 65 or over.

==Economy==
{{expand section|date=April 2023}}
*[[Indium Corporation]] (1934), materials refiner, smelter, manufacturer, and supplier

==Notable people==
{{See also|List of Hamilton College people}}
* [[Natalie Babbitt]], award-winning children's author, wife of Kirkland College President [[Samuel Fisher Babbitt]]
* [[Clara Barton]], founder of [[American Red Cross]], studied at the [[Clinton Liberal Institute]]
* [[Frederick Bee]], builder of telegraph over [[Sierra Nevada]] mountains and Consul of the Chinese Consulate in [[San Francisco]]
* [[Susan Bennett]], voice-over artist best known for being the female American voice of Apple's "Siri"
* [[William McLaren Bristol]], co-founder of Bristol-Meyers Squibb
* [[Jack Britton]], former World Welterweight Champion in boxing known as the "Boxing Marvel"
* [[Terry Brooks]], fantasy author, graduated from Hamilton College
* [[Grover Cleveland]], US President, childhood resident in 1851–52 at 26 Utica Street when his father was a Presbyterian minister working in Clinton for a missionary society. Cleveland's biographers say he attended the [[Clinton Liberal Institute]],<ref name=Wickser>{{cite journal
|title=Grover Cleveland: His Character, Background and Legal Career
|pages=327–330, 408–409, at p. 328
|first=Philip J.
|last=Wickser
|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25715911
|jstor=25715911
|journal=[[American Bar Association Journal]]
|volume=33
|number=4
|date=April 1947}}</ref> but this is not correct; he attended the Clinton Grammar School.<ref name=Schools>{{cite journal
|first=Percy L.
|last=Wight
|title=Clinton's Schools
|journal=Hamilton Alumni Review
|volume=2
|date=May 1937
|pages=117–121}}</ref>{{rp|117}}<ref>{{citation
|title=Allen's Hardware Store 118 Years in Business Part I
|newspaper=Clinton Historical Society Newsletter
|date=March 2003
|pages=3–4}}</ref><ref name="sketch7">{{cite book
|page=7
|title=A Historical Sketch of Hamilton College, Clinton, New York
|first=Charles Elmer
|last=Addison
|location=[[Yonkers, New York]]
|year=1889}}</ref><ref name=Foley/>{{rp|56}} His older brother William graduated from Hamilton College,<ref>{{cite news
|title=Grover Cleveland
|newspaper=Clinton Historical Society Newsletter
|date=November 2003
|page=4}}</ref><ref name=Schools/>{{rp|117}} but because of the death of his father, Grover was unable to continue his education; his last formal education was the Clinton Grammar School.<ref name=Wickser/> The family resided in Clinton for two years.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Grover Cleveland House Sold
|newspaper=Clinton Historical Society Newsletter
|date=October 2003
|page=2}}</ref> Cleveland attended Clinton's centennial in 1887, the only seated U.S. president to visit Clinton.<ref>{{cite news
|title=President Cleveland On Tour
|pages=4–5
|newspaper=Clinton Historical Society Newsletter
|date=March 2016}}</ref><ref name=Kirkland/>{{rp|19–20}}
* [[Rose Cleveland]], sister of the President, studied at Houghton Academy and taught history and literature there; she also taught more briefly at Hamilton College. She was the nation's [[first lady of the United States|first lady]] for two years; her brother was a bachelor.
* [[George W. Clinton]], son of Governor [[DeWitt Clinton]], graduated from Hamilton College.
* [[Flick Colby]], choreographer
* Rev, [[Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight]], son of Benjamin Woolsey Dwight, Hamilton College graduate and tutor, founded school in Clinton (see below)
* Benjamin Woolsey Dwight, father of Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, Treasurer of Hamilton College<ref>{{cite book
|page=18
|title=Reminiscences of the Life and Character of Benjamin Woolsey Dwight, M.D.
|first=Benjamin Woodbridge
|last=Dwight
|location=New York
|year=1862}}</ref>
* [[Edward P. Felt]], passenger on [[United Flight 93]], died September 11, 2001
* A brother of President [[Millard Fillmore]] was a teacher in Clinton.{{sfn|Gridley|1874|p=148}}<ref name=Wiley>{{cite book
|page=451
|title=Our County and Its People. A Descriptive Work on Oneida County New York
|last=Wager
|first=Daniel E.
|location=Boston
|publisher=Boston History Company
|year=1896}}</ref>
* [[Ulysses S. Grant III]], United States Army officer, grandson of [[President Ulysses S. Grant]]
* [[Asa Gray]], botanist, studied at the Clinton Grammar School<ref>{{cite journal
|title=Asa Gray.
|last=Driscoll
|first=Sally
|date=August 1, 2017
|pages=1–3
|journal=Ebsco MasterFILE Complete}}</ref>
* [[Alex Haley]], writer
* [[George Hastings (American politician)|George Hastings]], US Congressman, 1853-1857
* [[Mark Hopkins (educator)|Mark Hopkins]], President of [[Williams College]], studied, as a "private pupil", at the Clinton Grammar School<ref name="Historical">{{cite news
|title=Historical Sketch of the Clinton Grammar School
|date=January 24, 1867
|newspaper=Clinton Courier}}</ref> He had relatives in the village.<ref name=Rudd/>{{rp|7}}
* [[Louisa Matilda Jacobs]], an African American, studied at the Young Ladies' Domestic Seminary
* Rev. [[Hiram Huntington Kellogg Sr.]], graduate of [[Hamilton College]], founder of the Young Ladies' Domestic Seminary and first president of [[Knox College (Illinois)|Knox College]]
* [[Samuel Kirkland]], a missionary among the [[Oneida tribe|Oneida]], obtained a charter for Hamilton College in 1812
* [[Sarah J. Maas]], author of ''Throne of Glass'' series of fantasy novels, graduated from Hamilton College
* [[Louis M. Martin]], member New York State Assembly, New York Supreme Court
* [[Elizabeth Smith Miller]], daughter of Gerrit Smith, studied at Young Ladies' Domestic Seminary<ref name=Ballots>{{cite book
|page=18
|title=Ballots, Bloomers and Marmalade. The Life of Elizabeth Smith Miller
|first=Norman K.
|last=Dann
|location=[[Hamilton, New York]]
|publisher=Log Cabin Books
|year=2016
|isbn=9780997325102}}</ref>
* [[Myrtilla Miner]], educator of Blacks, studied at the Young Ladies' Domestic Seminary<ref name=Williams/>
* [[John Ripley Myers]], co-founder of Bristol-Meyers Squibb
* [[Joe Nolan (ice hockey)|Joe Nolan]], ice hockey defenceman for the Clinton Comets in the 1950s
* [[Nick Palmieri]], professional ice hockey player, was born in Clinton
* [[Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters]], Danish-born astronomer, worked at Litchfield Observatory, Hamilton College
* [[Ezra Pound]], poet and intellectual; attended Hamilton College
* [[Electa Quinney]], native American, studied at the Young Ladies' Domestic Seminaary
* [[Pelatiah Rawson]] (1789–1847), sometimes spelled Peletiah, Hamilton graduate, engineer that worked on the [[Erie Canal]], then taught at the [[Oneida Institute]], and founded a short-lived school in Clinton
* [[Elihu Root]], U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, Nobel peace prize, born in Clinton and attended Hamilton College
* [[Eli Parsons Royce]], born in Clinton and was the founder of [[Escanaba, Michigan]]
* [[Bernie Sanders]], taught political science at Hamilton College in 1991; later U.S. Senator from Vermont
* [[B. F. Skinner]], psychologist and social philosopher, graduated from Hamilton College
* [[Gerrit Smith]], valedictorian of the first graduating class at Hamilton College, U.S. congressman 1853-1854, three-time presidential candidate
* [[Charles Henry Smyth Jr.]], attended Clinton Grammar School, geology professor at Hamilton College
* [[Leland Stanford]], Governor and Senator of California, founder of [[Stanford University]], studied briefly at the Clinton Liberal Institute<ref>{{cite news
|title=Leland Stanford a Student Here
|pages=2–3
|newspaper=Clinton Historical Society Newsletter
|date=November 2019}}</ref>
* [[De Wayne Stebbins]], Wisconsin State Senator from 1895 to 1903, was born in Clinton
* [[Antoinette Sterling]], studied music at the White Seminary under Annie Sykes, who had studied at Kellogg's school for young ladies<ref name=Forty/>{{rp|29}}
* [[Hildegarde Swift]], award-winning children's author, was born in Clinton

==Archival material==
In the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]], are the Gridley family papers, [1798]-1885. They contain (212 items) the letters of a highly educated Clinton family, who were drawn to evangelical religion and progressive causes in the 1820-1830s.<ref>{{cite web
|title=Gridley family papers, [1798]-1885
|publisher=University of Michigan
|url=https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-wcl-M-3370.1gri
|accessdate=October 20, 2023}}</ref>

==References==
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=== Sources ===
{{refbegin}}
* {{cite book|title=History of the Town of Kirkland, New York|author1-first=Amos Delos|author1-last=Gridley|publisher=Hurd and Houghton|year=1874}}
* {{cite book|title=The Geological History of New York State|author1-first=William John|author1-last=Miller|publisher=Kennikat Press|year=1970|isbn=9780804613262}}
* {{cite book|title=Geology and Mineral Resources of the Oriskany Quadrangle (Rome Quadrangle)|volume=345|series=New York State Museum bulletin|author1-first=Nelson Clark|author1-last=Dale|publisher=University of the State of New York|year=1953}}
{{refend}}

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* [http://www.clintonhistory.org Clinton Historical Society]
* [http://www.ccs.edu Clinton Central School District]
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