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Clinton, village in the town (township) of Kirkland, Oneida county, central New York, U.S. Clinton lies along Oriskany Creek, just southwest of Utica. It was settled in 1786 and named for George Clinton, then governor of New York. Samuel Kirkland founded Hamilton-Oneida Academy there in 1793 as a school for Native Americans. Chartered as Hamilton College in 1812, it developed as a liberal arts college, with such notables as Ezra Pound, Elihu Root, Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), Alexander Woollcott, and B.F. Skinner among its graduates. Inc. 1843. Pop. (2000) 1,952; (2010) 1,942.

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