. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . it, is the Hon. David Clarkson. The firstAmerican progenitor of the Clarkson family wasJohn Clarkson, an English gentleman of landed es-tates, who exchanged his home in England for one inAmerica during the Revolutionary war, and settled inPhiladeli)hia, in which town he rose to he a man ofSlime i)rominence, and with the laying out of a jior-tiun of which he had much to do. His wife was asister of Benjamin West, the great painter. They hadtwo sons and nnv daughter, and ended their days inPhiladeliihia. Samuel Clarkson, one of the sons,
. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . it, is the Hon. David Clarkson. The firstAmerican progenitor of the Clarkson family wasJohn Clarkson, an English gentleman of landed es-tates, who exchanged his home in England for one inAmerica during the Revolutionary war, and settled inPhiladeli)hia, in which town he rose to he a man ofSlime i)rominence, and with the laying out of a jior-tiun of which he had much to do. His wife was asister of Benjamin West, the great painter. They hadtwo sons and nnv daughter, and ended their days inPhiladeliihia. Samuel Clarkson, one of the sons, wasborn in Philadelphia in 1787, and was early bred tothe trade of carpentering. He married Susan, daugh-ter of Jlichael Bowman, of Montgomery County, and Huntingdon Co., where both located upon pursued his trade until his death in 1830. Hiswidow died Dee. , aged eighty-four. They hadseven children, of whom they raised four. Those livingare Hon. David Clarkson and Mrs. J<ihn Mierly, ofCass township. David Clarkson was born in \Vest. Philadelphia Dec. 15,1814. He was but two years ofage when his father came to Huntingdon County. Atthe age of nineteen he was sent to William P. Dean,of Cass township, to learn the carpenters trade, andwith him remained nearly three years. He then wentt,, Huntingdon and worked withwilliam Hildebrandat cabinet-making and undertaking. Nov. 10. 1836,lie married Eleanor, daughter of Caleb Corbin, of(as> township. He then began business on his ownaccouiit ill township as carpenter, and in 1840pun lia>iiii;- the property he now occupies in Cassville,n-uioved his home and business to the village. Fromls4o to fs.)4 he followed the of cabinet-making and carpentering at Cassville, and in thelatter year made uuderlaking his sole a period of forty-three years, or from 1840 to the))resent. Judge (Markson has been an undertaker, andin many Huntingdon County families has buried rep-resentatives of two gen
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