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  History of Clinton, Dutchess, New York, USA

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• 1854 - Clinton
  Clinton, a township of Dutchess county, New York, 10 miles N. from Poughkeepsie. Population, 1795.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
  
•  1869 - The Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity have elected Chief Justice Chase and James Russell Lowell to deliver the oration and poem before their next convention,
  which will be held in 1870, at Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y.
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  June 3, 1869
  
  
•  1869 - The Shower Bath in State Prison.
  A correspondent of one of the New York papers, who confesses to have been a convict in Clinton (N. Y.) State Prison, thus relates his experience in the matter of punishment by the infernal machine called a shower-bath:
  
  "I, too, have done the State some service, and will tell you how it happened, ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1877 - Clinton
  POPULATION, 1,793. - SQUARE ACRES, 24,064.
  
  CLINTON was organized March 13, 1786. It was formed from Charlotte and Rhinebeck Precincts, and derives its name from Hon. George Clinton, who was then Governor of the State. It originally embraced territory much larger than at present, Hyde Park and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1879 - Madison University
  In 1818, thirteen men gathered together, thirteen prayers were said, and thirteen dollars subscribed for the establishment of a place of learning for Baptists. To-day Madison University, at Clinton, N. Y., owns all its buildings and 160 acres of land in a beautiful part of the country. It has a...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Clinton
  Clinton, a township of Duchess co., N.Y. Pop. 1693.
  Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
  
  
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  Lower College Street, Clinton, N.Y.
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  Residence of Elihu Root, Clinton, N.Y.
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• 1916
  Clinton, a township (town) of Dutchess co., N.Y. Pop. in 1900, 1370.
  Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher
  
  
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  The Lutheran Church Home for Aged and Infirm at Clinton, New York
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