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manded by Admiral de Grasse, and a decisive | land in 1882; the Cleveland Medical College, victory was gained. (See RODNEY, Vol. XX, p. 618.)-His son, JOHN CLERK (1757-1832) was raised to the Scottish bench in 1823, when he assumed the judicial title of Lord Eldin. CLERMONT-DE-LODÈVE, a town in the department of Hérault, central southern France, 23 miles N.W. of Montpellier. It has extensive manufactories of woolen cloth. Population, 5,685. CLETHRA, a genus of shrubs or trees of the family Ericaceæ. C. alnifolia, the common species of the eastern United States, known as white alder," has alternate sharply serrate leaves, and upright dense panicles of fragrant white flowers.

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CLEVELAND, a wild mountainous district, with some picturesque fertile valleys, forming the east part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, England. In the south the hills rise 1,300 to 1,850 feet. An extraordinary change has been wrought in the aspect of the country by a rich discovery of ironstone in the Cleveland hills; since 1851 lonely hamlets have become populous towns. See YORK, Vol. XXIV, pp. 747, 748.

CLEVELAND, a city of Ohio. (See Vol. V, p. 828.) The population of the city has increased from 160, 146 in 1880 to 261,546 in 1890, and to 345,000 in 1896 (estimated). The city covers an area of 3134 square miles. Jan. 1, 1890, the assessed valuation of property in the city was $95,000,000; in 1896 (estimated), $135,700,000. The debt of the city was, in 1890, $8,156, 200; in 1896, $5,950,000. The rate of taxation in 1890 was 2.83 per cent, and in 1896, 2.87 per cent. There were, in 1890, 2,300 manufacturing establishments, with a direct investment of $69,732,000, employing 50,674 persons, whose annual wages amounted to $28,355,505, and with an annual production of $113,249,115. The city contains eight shipyards, two of them of immense proportions, for building iron and steel vessels. Its ship-building industry Its ship-building industry is the largest of any place along the lakes. The city is the center of the iron-ore industry, its docks being the largest and most capacious of any on the lakes. The Standard Oil Company has here its headquarters, and the city leads in the petroleum business. The proportions of the leading manufactures, according to the census of 1890, will be seen from the following figures, representing the amount of the direct investment: Iron and steel, $9,344,000; iron and steel bolts, nuts, washers and rivets, $1, 068,000; iron and steel forgings, $1,099,000; ironwork, architectural and ornamental, $94,647; foundries and machine-shops, $6,832,000; petroleum, $10,426,000; ship-building, $2,562,000; liquors (malt), $3,580,000; chemicals, lumber, paints and printing, including publishing, over $1,000,000 each. A harbor of refuge was constructed by the United States government and cost nearly $2,000,000; and the great viaduct, extending from the lake on the east side to the top of the hill on the west side, was completed at a cost of $2,225,000. The chief educational institutions include Adelbert College, which was established in 1826, at Hudson, as the Western Reserve College, and removed to Cleve

founded in 1834, and possessing a fine museum; the Case School of Applied Science, an important technological institution liberally endowed. These are considered parts of the Western Reserve University. The medical department of Wooster University is also located in the city. A feature worthy of mention in this connection is the "Educational Bureau," organized by prominent citizens, and designed to provide instruction and recreation for working men and women by means of lectures, concerts, and the free distribution of digested material on special subjects. The public libraries contain a total of over 127,000 volumes.

The city is perhaps best known abroad in connection with Euclid Avenue, which is regarded by many as the finest avenue in the United States. It is lined with beautiful private residences, with handsome grounds most tastefully laid out. About four miles out from the public square called Monumental Park, where a monument to Moses Cleaveland (q.v., in these Supplements) is erected, is Wade Park, on the north side of Euclid Avenue, consisting of 73 acres. It occupies a deep ravine and uplands. It has been skillfully treated, and is a favorite resort. Up to 1882 it was the private park of Jeptha H. Wade (q. v., in these Supplements), who presented it to the city. Lake View Park, on the lake-front in the city portion, is much frequented. Lake View Cemetery contains the remains of President Garfield, to whom a fine monument has been there erected. Outside the city limits, to the northeast, lies the suburb of Glenville, where the famous trotting-track of that name is located, and where many fast records have been made. Cleveland celebrated its centenary July 22, 1896, on which occasion John D. Rockefeller presented the city with $600,000, about one half in cash, the balance in land, to be used for park purposes.

CLEVELAND, a railroad junction and the capital of Bradley County, southeastern Tennessee, on the Southern railroad, 29 miles E. N. E. of Chattanooga. It is an educational town and contains an academy, an institute for women, and the largest Southern college for women. Population 1890, 2,863.

CLEVELAND, CHARLES DEXTER, an American educator; born in Salem, Massachusetts, Dec. 3, 1802; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Aug. 18, 1869. Graduating at Dartmouth in 1827, he became a teacher of Latin and Greek in Dickinson College, and afterward in the New York University, and in a young ladies' school in Philadelphia. He was appointed consul to Cardiff, Wales (18611867). Professor Cleveland was the author of several works on English, American and classical literature, textbooks and songbooks for schools, and prepared a concordance to Milton's poems.

CLEVELAND, GROVER, President of the United States; born in Caldwell, Essex County, New Jersey, March 18, 1837. His ancestor, Moses Cleveland, emigrated from Ipswich, England, to Woburn, Massachusetts, in 1635, and his father, Richard F., was a Presbyterian clergyman who

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named his son after the Rev. Stephen Grover, his predecessor in the Presbyterian Church in Caldwell. After the death of his father, Grover became a clerk and assistant teacher in the New York Institution for the Blind, and in 1855 he went to the West in search of employment. While passing through Buffalo he was persuaded to remain with his uncle, Lewis F. Allen, whom he assisted in preparing the American Shorthorn Herd Book. Afterward he became a clerk in the law firm of Rogers, Bowen and Rogers, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1859. From 1863 to 1866 he was district attorney of Erie County. He became the law partner of Isaac V. Vanderpool, and in 1869 a member of the firm of Lanning, Cleveland and Folsom, practicing until 1870, when he was made sheriff of Erie County. In 1873 he became a member of the firm of Bass, Cleveland and Bissell, and he was noted for the logic and mastery with which he conducted his cases. In 1881 he was elected mayor of Buffalo, and soon became known as the " veto mayor, checking unwise, illegal and extravagant expenditure of public money and saving the city one million dollars in the first six months of his service. In 1882 he was elected governor of New York by a plurality of 192,854 over the Republican nominee, Charles J. Folger. Among the chief acts of his administration were his approval of a bill to submit to the people a proposition to abolish contract labor in the prisons; the veto of a bill which permitted wide latitude in which the directors of savings banks might risk deposits; the veto of a similar bill respecting the securities of insurance companies, and the veto of a bill to establish a monopoly by limiting the right to construct certain street-railways to companies heretofore organized, to the exclusion of such as should hereafter obtain the consent of property owners and local authorities.

In July, 1884, the Democratic national convention at Chicago nominated him for the Presidency of the United States, he receiving 683 votes out of a total of 820. James G. Blaine was the Republican candidate, and the canvass which followed was remarkable more for the discussion of the personal characters and qualifications of the respective candidates than for the discussion of political issues. In the election which followed, Mr. Cleveland received a majority of 37 in the electoral college, and a majority in the popular vote of 23,005 out of a total of 10,067,610.

He was inaugurated March 4, 1885, serving until 1889. On March 13, 1885, Mr. Cleveland issued a proclamation to remove the white intruders from Oklahoma, Indian Territory, and after the burning of Aspinwall, Panama, by the revolutionists, March 31, 1885, ordered a naval

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expedition to protect the Americans and their property. June 2, 1886, President Cleveland married, in the White House, Frances Folsom, daughter of his former law partner. With the exception of Mrs. Madison, Mrs. Cleveland was the youngest of the many mistresses of the White House, having been born in Buffalo, New York, in 1864. By this union three children have been born, one, Esther, being born in the White House, September, 1893.

In 1888 Mr. Cleveland was renominated for President, but was defeated by the Republican candidate, Benjamin Harrison. Mr. Cleveland then removed to New York City to practice law. In 1892 Mr. Cleveland was again nominated for President by the Democrats, and elected over President Harrison on a tariff reform platform and campaign. and campaign. Both Houses being Democratic, the Wilson bill, a tariff-for-revenue-only measure, was passed in 1894, but the Democratic party was held responsible for the hard times by the country, and the Republicans won a protective tariff victory in November, 1894, so that President Cleveland had to deal with a Republican Congress the last two years of his administration.

In the mean time, at a special session called by him, Aug. 7, 1893, President Cleveland had secured the repeal of the act of 1890, calling for the purchase of $4,500,000 of silver bullion monthly, against the opposition of the silver wing of his party, on the ground that this act was responsible for the financial depression.

In July, 1894, he ordered the United States troops to Chicago and several railroad centers to enforce the orders and process of the federal courts, and to prevent interference with interstate commerce and the mail service. His firm stand undoubtedly saved many lives and much property. Jan. 1, 1895, he announced the names of the commission, appointed with the consent of Congress, to inquire into the Venezuelan boundary. During the summer of the same year he was chosen arbitrator in the dispute between Italy and Colombia, in which the former claimed $600,000 damages sustained by Italians in the revolution of 1885.

CLEVELAND, ROSE ELIZABETH, sister of Grover Cleveland; born in Fayetteville, New York, in 1846; educated at Houghton Seminary, Clinton, and became a teacher in that institution, and somewhat later assumed charge of the collegiate institution at Lafayette, Indiana. She has lectured before several schools on historical subjects, and has written a book entitled George Eliot's Poetry, and Other Studies; and a novel entitled The Long Run. For a short time she was editor of Literary Life, a Chicago magazine.

CLEVENGER, SHOBAL VAIL, an American sculptor; born near Middletown, Ohio, Oct. 22, 1812; died at sea, Sept. 23, 1843. His father was a weaver who went to Cincinnati with his son and apprenticed him to a stone-cutter. He at once manifested artistic ability in carving tombstone-work, and learned to hew busts in freestone. Subsequently he chose the career of a

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sculptor, and as such settled in New York City. |
Here he made busts of General Harrison, Van
Buren, Clay, Webster and other persons of dis-
tinction. Many of his works are contained in the
art galleries of New York, Boston and Philadel-
phia. In 1840 he went to Rome, where he pro-
duced his North American Indian, one of the very
best productions of native talent. While in Italy
he became affected with pulmonary phthisis, caused
by inhalation of stone-dust. He died on the
Mediterranean, within a day's sail of Gibraltar.
CLEW BAY, an inlet of the Atlantic, on the
west coast of Mayo County, Ireland. Old Red
Sandstone, Carboniferous limestone and Cam-
brian strata form the shores of the bay. The
upper part of the bay contains an archipelago of
three hundred fertile and cultivated islets.
CLICHE, the impression made by a die in
melted tins or other fusible metals. It is the
proof of a die-sinker's work, by which he judges of
the effect and ascertains the stage of progress as
reached before the die is hardened. The same
term is applied by the French to stereotype casts
from woodcuts.

CLICK-BEETLE OR SPRING-BEETLE, the popular name given to many coleopterous insects of the family Elaterida. They are so called from springing into the air with an audible click when placed on the back. The click is caused by striking the wing-covers against the supporting surface. The well-known wire-worms are larvæ of certain species. See COLEOPTERA, Vol. VI, P. 132.

CLIDASTES, a genus of reptiles found in the Cretaceous formation of North America. They reached a length of from 12 to 40 feet.

CLIFF-DWELLINGS. See METEORA, Vol. XVI, p. 114; and INDIANS, AMERICAN, Vol. XII, pp. 822-833.

CLIFFORD, FREDERICK, an English lawyer and author; born in 1828, practiced at the Parliamentary bar and served as assistant boundary commissioner under the Reform Act of 1867. He | was the author of several important treatises on parliamentary law, his great work in this connection being his History of Private Bill Legislation, which is of great historical interest to students, on account of the light it throws on the social progress of Great Britain. He was also the author of interesting reports upon agricultural topics, in connection with the land and legal phases.

CLIFFORD, NATHAN, an American jurist; born in Rumney, New Hampshire, Aug. 18, 1803; died in Cornish, Maine, July 25, 1881. He adopted the legal profession, was in the state legislature from 1830 to 1834, was attorney-general of the state from 1834 to 1838, and subsequently served two terms in Congress. In 1846 he was called to President Polk's Cabinet as Attorney-General, and in this capacity he made important treaties with Mexico. California was annexed to the United States according to the terms of one of these treaties. In 1858 he became associate justice of the supreme court, and in 1877 it was his duty as senior associate judge to preside over the

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CLIFFORD, MRS. Lucy, English novelist and relict of the late Prof. W. K. Clifford, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the century. She comes of a family once notable in Barbados, where her grandfather, John Brandford Lane, was sometime speaker of the house of assembly. At the age of 15 Mrs. Clifford began to write. stories, which in time gradually found their way into print in various magazines, and exhibited considerable talent. In 1875 she married, and four years later lost her eminent husband, when she turned her thoughts to literary work again, and published three volumes for children. She first became known to fame, in 1885, as the author of Mrs. Keith's Crime, a novel much talked of in its day, but since eclipsed by the popularity of her Aunt Anne. Besides these two powerful character-stories, and a third novel, entitled A Flash of Summer, which first appeared in the Illustrated London News, she has written a number of stories of slighter bulk, notably A Wild Proxy; Love Letters of a Worldly Woman; The Last Touches; and Mere Stories. "The main themes of her ablest writing, Mrs. Clifford always finds. in her hatred of dowdyism, especially in mind, of ugly prosperity, of smugness, and of injustice."

CLIFFORD, WILLIAM KINGDON, an English mathematician; born at Exeter, May 4, 1845; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was second wrangler in the mathematical tripos of 1867. He was appointed professor of mathematics and mechanics in University College, London, in 1871, holding the chair until 1879. In 1870 he accompanied the English expedition to the Mediterranean to observe the solar eclipse. On account of failing health he spent the summer of 1876 in Spain and Algiers, and in 1878 was again compelled to seek rest in Maderia, where he died, March 3d, the following year. March 3d, the following year. His works include Elements of Dynamics (1878-87); Common Sense of the Exact Sciences (edited by K. Pearson, 1885); Seeing and Thinking (1879); and the posthumous book, Lectures and Essays. His mathematical and philosophical speculations were bold and brilliant. Evolution he treated from a mechanical point of view, yet finding a monistic and spiritual quality for it. He was strongly disposed toward a Berkeleyan idealism or mental phenomenonalism, and was of synthetic turn of mind. His early death removed an unusually promising speculative thinker.

CLIFTON, ROBERT BELLAMY, an English mathematician and physicist; born at Gedney, Lincolnshire, March 13, 1836; studied at University College, London, and at St. John's College, Cambridge, and graduated in 1859. In 1860 he was elected to a fellowship in St. John's College, and became professor of experimental philosophy in Owens College, which he held until appointed professor in Oxford in 1865. In 1868 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He

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designed and organized the Clarendon Labora- | upward growth. Some climb by means of small tory in Oxford, the first of the kind in England. | root-like processes growing from the stem, some He was a member of the Royal Commission on by means of tendrils, some by adhering disks, and Accidents in Mines (1879-86), and president of others by twining their stems around the objects the Physical Society (1882-84). to which they cling.

CLIFTON, a town of Southern Ontario, and a port of entry, on the Niagara River, two miles below the Falls. Population 1891, 1,017.

CLIFTON SPRINGS, a health-resort of Ontario County, central western New York, on the New York Central and Hudson River and the Lehigh Valley railroads. It has large sulphursprings and a building devoted to invalids, called the Clifton Springs Sanitarium. Population 1890,

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CLIMACTERIC YEAR, any year which marks a period of important change in the physical constitution of man. In ancient times, years denoted by multiples of the mystic numbers seven or nine received this designation, and were believed to be turning-points in health and fortune. The "grand climacteric," or most important of such years, was that denoted by the product of seven and nine, the sixty-third, and was supposed to mark the termination of an especially dangerous period. Medical authorities admit that the years indicated are critical ones.

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CLIMAX, a Greek word meaning a stair, and derived from a root which conveys the idea of "sloping. In English it indicates the highest point of an ascent, or the point of greatest intensity; the climax of an oration or argument being its most impressive portion. Climax, in rhetoric, is the figure by which the speaker, in a well-arranged series of propositions, each of greater force than the preceding, gradually leads the minds of his hearers to a full appreciation of the supreme point of his discourse.

CLIMBERS, the birds of the order Scansores, so called from their climbing habits. See SCANSORES, in these Supplements.

CLIMBING-FERN, a name applied to a species of Lygodium, a genus of twining and climbing ferns growing in the tropics of both hemispheres. It belongs to the family Schizæacea, characterized by its peculiar sporangia, which are sessile, and open by a longitudinal slit, the annulus cells forming a cap. The only species of temperate regions is the slender and graceful L. palmatum of the eastern United States, growing in low, shady woods, and entangled among herbs. The leaflets are roundish and palmately five to seven lobed, the upper ones more compounded and bearing the sporangia on their margins. It is much prized in house-decoration.

CLIMBING-PERCH (Anabas scandens), a fish of the family Anabantida, found in the rivers of the East Indies. A peculiar structure retains enough water to moisten the gills for a long time, and the fish travels over dry ground without serious inconvenience. It is said to be able to ascend trees by fixing its spiny gill-covers and fins into the bark..

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CLINCH RIVER, a stream 300 miles in length, one of the main headwaters of the Tennessee. Rising in southwestern Virginia, and flowing through eastern Tennessee, it unites at Kingston with the Holston River, the two there becoming ❘ the Tennessee.

CLINGMAN, THOMAS LANIER, an American politician and Confederate soldier; born at Huntsville, in Yadkin, then Surry, County, North Carolina, July 27, 1812; was graduated at the North Carolina State University at Chapel Hill, in 1832, and afterward studied law, but in 1835 entered political life as a member of the legislature of his state and became state senator in 1840. He was elected a member of the Congress of 1843-45 and of the six succeeding Congresses, being appointed to the Senate in 1858 to fill a vacancy, and elected Senator in 1861. It has been said of him, that, until he withdrew from Congress on account of the secession of his state in 1861, he never missed a day's attendance. In his early career he was an active Whig, but he became a Democrat when convinced that the Democratic party was the only one with which Southern patriots could consistently act. In 1845 he fought a bloodless duel at Bladensburg with William L. Yancey of Alabama, which grew out of remarks concerning the cause of Henry Clay's defeat. He withdrew from the United States Congress in 1861, and became a colonel and afterward a brigadier-general in the Confederate army, and participated in many battles, notably Goldsboro, Sullivan's Island, Newbern, Drury's Bluff, Cold Harbor, Petersburg and the Weldon railroad, being three times wounded. At the close of the war he surrendered with General Joseph E. Johnston and sought to build up the waste places of his section. In 1868 he was a delegate to the national Democratic convention. From his home at Asheville he wrote important contributions to the mineralogical and geological knowledge of his state. In 1855 he ascended and measured the mountain known as Clingman's Peak, and in 1858 that known as Clingman's Dome, which was named after him. It is the highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains (6,660 feet). He published an able defense of religion against the attacks of science, a volume of his own speeches, and Follies of the Positive Philosophers (1878).

CLINKSTONE. See Phonolite, in GEOLOGY, Vol. X, p. 234.

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CLINOMETER, an instrument for taking the dip and strike of a stratum, the grade of a railway track, or the like. It consists of a compass provided with a small spirit-level and having on the lid a small graduated arc and a plumb-line. The name is applied, also, to several devices operating on a similar principle, and used for determining angular elevation or depression. One form, having a bar with sliding points, is used

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in craniometrical determination of the facial angles.

CLINTON, a town, capital of Van Buren County, north-central Arkansas, is situated on Little Red River, 60 miles N. W. from Little Rock Population 1890, 176.

CLINTON, a town of Huron County, southwestern Ontario, Canada, is situated on a branch of the Grand Trunk railroad, 12 miles S.W. of Goderich, the county seat, and has a collegiate institute, two newspapers, a number of factories, and several salt-wells. It is the headquarters of the Canada Salt Association. PopuPopulation 1891, 2,635.

CLINTON, a village, capital of Jones County, central Georgia. Estimated population of the village, 250; population of the militia district in 1890, 536.

CLINTON, a city, capital of Clinton County, eastern Iowa (see CLINTON, Vol. VI, p. 7), has had a large growth, and is an important point for the distribution and manufacture of lumber. It has eight daily and weekly newspapers, and is equipped liberally with banks, schools, public library, etc., besides saw-mills, paper-mills, iron foundries, chair factories, railway repair-shops, flour-mills, canning-works, and asphaltum-works. An iron railroad bridge four thousand feet in length spans the Mississippi at this point, and the facilities for rail and river transportation are abundant. Population 1880, 9,052; 1890, 13,619. CLINTON, a city, capital of Hickman County, southwestern Kentucky; a station of the Illinois Central railroad; has a bank, several churches, and flour and lumber industries. Population 1880, 506; 1890, 1,347.

CLINTON, a cotton-shipping town, capital of East Feliciana Parish, southeastern Louisiana; is connected by a 25-mile railroad with Port Hudson, on the Mississippi River. Population 1890, 974. CLINTON, a manufacturing city of Worcester County, central Massachusetts, and an important. railroad junction. (See CLINTON, Vol. VI, p. 7.) Among the chief products are ginghams, plaids, carpets and machinery. The Lancaster Mills here employ over 1,500 operatives. Population 1880, 8,029; 1890, 9.626.

CLINTON, a town of Hinds County, south central Mississippi, about 10 miles W. N. W. of Jackson; is the seat of Mississippi College and of the Central Female Institute. Population 1890, of the "beat," or district, 6,711.

CLINTON, a city, capital of Henry County, west-central Missouri, is situated on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad, about 75 miles S. E. from Kansas City. It has two colleges, a pottery, tile-works, rolling-mills, etc. Population 1880, 2,628; 1890, 4,737.

CLINTON, a town, capital of Anderson County, eastern Tennessee, situated at the crossing of the Clinch River by the Southern railroad. It is in a productive cotton, grain, and peanut raising region, and it has flour and sawmills, a foundry and a tool-handle factory. It has steamboat connections with points farther down the river. Population 1890, 1, 198.

CLINTON, CHARLES, an American colonist, ancestor of the Clintons in the United States, was born in County Longford, Ireland, 1690, his grandfather, William Clinton, having been an officer in the army of King Charles the First. In May, 1729, he chartered a vessel to take himself and a party of friends to America. They reached Cape Cod in October of that year, but he removed to Ulster County, New York, in 1731, where he became a county judge and colonel of militia. In 1758 he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of De Lancey's regiment and served in the expedition under Bradstreet against Fort Frontenac. He died in 1773.

CLINTON, GEORGE, a British admiral; colonial governor of Newfoundland, 1732-41, and of New York, 1741-51. He was a son of the sixth earl of Lincoln, and the father of Sir Henry Clinton. After leaving New York he was made. governor of Greenwich Hospital. In 1745 he became vice-admiral of the red, and, twelve years later, admiral of the fleet. He died July 10, 1761.

CLINTON, GEORGE, an American statesman and general, son of Charles Clinton; born in Ulster County, New York, July 26, 1739; died in Washington, District of Columbia, April 20, 1812. His early military training consisted of a privateering cruise and service as lieutenant in the expedition against Fort Frontenac. He was a member of the New York assembly, and of the Continental Congress prior to and during the Revolutionary War, and also of the constitutional convention of New York in 1777. In 1777 he was made brigadier-general in the Continental army, and in the same year he and his brother James made a brave defense of Forts Clinton and Montgomery, on the Hudson, at the time of their capture by the British. He became first governor of New York, and was re-elected many times. He was a Whig leader in politics, and a vigorous defender of his state against the incursions of hostile Indians, the encroachments of neighboring states, and the uprisings of turbulent spirits opposed to law and order. He first conceived the idea of utilizing the waterways of his state for canal transportation, and the Erie canal was the result. In 1804 he was chosen fourth Vice-President of the United States, Jefferson being President. In 1808 he was re-elected, with Madison for President, and in 1811, by his casting-vote, he defeated the project for continuing the United States Bank beyond that year.

CLINTON, a village of Oneida County, central New York, about nine miles S. W. of Utica; is chiefly known on account of its educational institutions, which include Hamilton College, two seminaries CLINTON, SIR HENRY, an English general who for girls, and an academy. Quarries of flag and had command in America during the Revolutionbuilding stone are in the vicinity. Populationary War. He was born in 1738, being the only 1890, 1,269. son of Admiral George Clinton, who was colonial

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