a large sugar refinery. The value of the factory product in 1900 was $6,203,316; in 1905, $4,906,355. The American Protective Association (A.P.A.), a secret order opposed to Roman Catholicism, was formed here in 1887. The city was founded in 1855 by the Iowa Land Company, and was incorporated first in 1857, and again in 1867, this time under a general law of the state for the incorporation of cities. The county, from which the city took its name, was named in honour of De Witt Clinton.
CLINTON, a township of Worcester county, Massachusetts,
U.S.A., in the central part of the state, on the Nashua river,
about 15 m. N.N.E. of Worcester. Pop. (1890) 10,424; (1900)
13,667, of whom 5504 were foreign-born; (1910, U.S. census)
13,075. The township is traversed by the Boston & Maine, and
New York, New Haven & Hartford railways. It contains
7 sq. m. of varied and picturesque hilly country on the E. slope
of the highland water-parting between the Connecticut river
and the Atlantic. There is charming scenery along the Nashua
river, the chief stream. The S.W. corner of the township is
now part of an immense water reservoir, the Wachusett dam and
reservoir (excavated 1896–1905; circumference, 35.2 m.), on the
S. branch of the Nashua, which will hold 63,000 million gallons
of water for the supply of the metropolitan region around
Boston. On this is situated the village of Clinton, which has
large manufactories, among whose products are cotton and
woollen fabrics, carpets, wire-cloth, iron and steel, and combs.
The textile and carpet mills are among the most famous in the
United States. In 1905 the total factory product of the township
was valued at $5,457,865, the value of cotton goods, carpets
and wire-work constituting about nine-tenths of the total.
The prominence of the township as a manufacturing centre
is due to Erastus Brigham Bigelow (1814–1879), one of the
incorporators of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
who devised power-looms for the weaving of a variety of
figured fabrics,—coach-lace, counterpanes, ginghams, silk brocatel,
tapestry carpeting, ingrain and Brussels carpets,—and revolutionized
their manufacture. In 1843 he and his brother Horatio
N. Bigelow established in Clinton the Lancaster Mills for the
manufacture of ginghams. From 1845 to 1851 he perfected his
loom for the weaving of Brussels and Wilton carpets, the greatest
of his inventions; and he established the Bigelow Carpet Mills
here. He also invented the loom for the weaving of wire-cloth.
It is claimed that the first production in the United States of
finished cotton cloths under one roof and under the factory
system was not at Waltham in 1816, but at Clinton in 1813;
neither place was the first to spin by power, nor the first to
produce finished cloths without the factory system. The comb
industry dates from the eighteenth century. The first of the
modern textile mills were established in 1838 for the manufacture
of coach-lace. Clinton was a part of Lancaster, now
a small farming township (pop. in 1910, 2464), until 1850, when
it was set off as an independent township. The earliest settlement
goes back to 1645.
See A. E. Ford, History of the Origin of the Town of Clinton, Massachusetts, 1653–1865 (Clinton, 1896).
CLINTON, a city and the county-seat of Henry county,
Missouri, U.S.A., on the Grand river, 87 m. S.E. of Kansas City.
Pop. (1890) 4737; (1900) 5061 (470 being negroes); (1910) 4992.
It is served by the St Louis & San Francisco, the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas, and the Kansas City, Clinton & Springfield
railways. The city is situated on the border of a rolling prairie
about 770 ft. above the sea. The vicinity abounds in coal,
but is principally agricultural, and Clinton’s chief interest is in
trade with it. The principal manufactures are flour and pottery.
Clinton was laid out in 1836 and was incorporated in 1865.
CLINTON, a village of Oneida county, New York, U.S.A.,
on the Oriskany Creek, about 9 m. S.W. of Utica. Pop. (1890)
1269; (1900) 1340; (1905) 1315; (1910) 1236. It is served
by the New York, Ontario & Western railway, and is connected
with Utica by an electric line. Several fine mineral springs in
the vicinity have given Clinton some reputation as a health
resort. There are iron mines, blast furnaces, and iron smelters.
Clinton is the seat of Hamilton College (non-sectarian), which
was opened as the Hamilton Oneida Academy in 1798, and
was chartered under its present name in 1812. It was founded
by the Rev. Samuel Kirkland (1741–1808), a missionary among
the Oneida Indians; its corner-stone was laid by Baron Steuben;
its shade trees were furnished by Thomas Jefferson; and its
name was received from Alexander Hamilton, one of its early
trustees. It had in 1907–1908 20 instructors, 178 students,
and a library of 47,000 volumes and 30,000 pamphlets. At
Clinton are also excellent minor schools. Litchfield Observatory
is connected with the college, and was long in charge of the well-known
astronomer, Christian H. F. Peters (1813–1890), who
discovered here more than 40 asteroids and made extensive
investigations concerning comets. The village was settled
about 1786 by pioneers from New England, was named in honour
of George Clinton, and was incorporated in 1842.
CLINTONITE, a group of micaceous minerals known as the
“brittle micas.” Like the micas and chlorites, they are monoclinic
in crystallization and have a perfect cleavage parallel to
the flat surface of the plates or scales, but differ markedly from
these in the brittleness of the laminae; they are also considerably
harder, the hardness of chloritoid being as high as 612 on Mohs’
scale. They differ chemically from the micas in containing less
silica and no alkalis, and from the chlorites in containing much
less water; in many respects they are intermediate between
the micas and chlorites.
The following species are distinguished:—
Margarite is a basic calcium aluminium silicate, H2CaAl4Si2O12, and is classed by some authors as a lime-mica. It forms white pearly scales, and was at first known as pearl-mica and afterwards as margarite, from μαργαρίτης, a pearl. It is a characteristic associate of corundum, of which it is frequently an alteration product (facts which suggested the synonymous names corundellite and emerylite), and is found in the emery deposits of Asia Minor and the Grecian Archipelago, and with corundum at several localities in the United States.
Seybertite, Brandisite and Xanthophyllite are closely allied species consisting of basic magnesium, calcium and aluminium silicate, and have been regarded as isomorphous mixtures of a silicate (H2CaMg4Si3O12) and an aluminate (H2CaMgAl6O12). Seybertite (the original clintonite) occurs as reddish-brown to copper-red, brittle, foliated masses in metamorphic limestone at Amity, New York; brandisite as yellowish-green hexagonal prisms in metamorphic limestone in the Fassathal, Tirol; xanthophyllite as yellow folia and as distinct crystals (waluewite) in chloritic schists in the Urals.
Chloritoid has the formula H2(Fe,Mg)Al2SiO7. It forms tabular crystals and scales, with indistinct hexagonal outlines, which are often curved or bent and aggregated in rosettes. The colour is dark grey or green; a characteristic feature is the pleochroism, the pleochroic colours varying from yellowish-green to indigo-blue. Hardness, 612; specific gravity, 3.4-3.6. It occurs as isolated scales scattered through schistose rocks and phyllites of dynamo-metamorphic origin. The ottrelites of the phyllites and ottrelite-schists of Ottrez and other localities in the Belgian Ardennes is a manganiferous variety of chloritoid, but owing to enclosed impurities the analyses differ widely from those of typical chloritoid. (L. J. S.)
CLISSON, OLIVIER DE (1336–1407), French soldier, was the son of the Olivier de Clisson who was put to death in 1343 on the suspicion of having wished to give up Nantes to the English. He was brought up in England, where his mother, Jeanne de Belleville, had married her second husband. On his return to Brittany he took arms on the side of de Montfort, distinguishing himself at the battle of Auray (1364), but in consequence of differences with Duke John IV. went over to the side of Blois. In 1370 he joined Bertrand du Guesclin, who had lately become constable of France, and followed him in all his campaigns against the English. On the death of du Guesclin Clisson received the constable’s sword (1380). He fought with the citizens of Ghent, defeating them at Roosebek (1382), later on commanded the army in Poitou and Flanders (1389), and made an unsuccessful attempt to invade England. On his return to Paris, in 1392,
