The History of Clinton County, Missouri : containing a history of the County, its cities, towns, etc., biographical sketches of its citizens, Clinton County in the late war, general and local statistics, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, history of Missouri, map of Clinton County, etc., etc . rom Lakes Erie and Champlain to the river Hudson. The Fed-eral Government refused to undertake the work ; but some time after, in1815, the year in which he finally lost the mayoralty, he presented amemorial on the subject to the Legislature of New York, and the Legis-lature appointed a commis
The History of Clinton County, Missouri : containing a history of the County, its cities, towns, etc., biographical sketches of its citizens, Clinton County in the late war, general and local statistics, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, history of Missouri, map of Clinton County, etc., etc . rom Lakes Erie and Champlain to the river Hudson. The Fed-eral Government refused to undertake the work ; but some time after, in1815, the year in which he finally lost the mayoralty, he presented amemorial on the subject to the Legislature of New York, and the Legis-lature appointed a commission, of which he was made a member, to makesurveys and draw up estimates. Having thus recovered his popularity,in 1816, Clinton was once more chosen Governor of the state ; in 1819,he was re-elected, and again in 1824 and 1826. In 1825, the ErieCanal was completed ; and he afterwards saw the work, which owed somuch to him, carried on by the construction of important branch much have we deemed proper to be said with regard to theperson for whom the county was named. So much every boy or girl,whose home is within the bounds of the county should know, and lessthan this would certainly be unsatisfactory to one whose mind has everbeen lead to the investigation of the countys history. ^^=^^. CHAPTER II. PHYSICAL FEATURES. LOCATION-BOUNDARV-CIVII. AND CI >NGRESSIONAL TOWNSHI Pi-SURFACE-STREAMi—TIMBER-nS IMPORTANCE TO EARLY SETTLERS-CLIMATE-RAINFALL-HEAL TH—PRAIRIE-WASTE LAND. Clinton County, is in the center of the great bend of the MissouriRiver, which commences at St. Joseph and ends at Lexington, lyingabout the same distance from the river on the west as on the south—twenty-eight miles. It is nearly the same parallel as Philadelphia, Col-umbus, Indianapolis, Denver, and San Francisco, and about the samemeridian as Lake Itasca and Galveston. It is bounded on the north by DeKalb County, on the east by Cald-well and Ray, on the south by Clay, and on the west by B
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