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Isaac Bassett Clinton
Isaac Bassett Clinton, one of the best-known citizens and successful general farmer and dairymen of the town of Wallington, was born July 2, 1834, on the old homestead, near where he now resides.
Jesse Clinton, the grandfather of our subject, was a large land owner near Clintonville, where he spent his life, and added to his income very considerably by cattle raising. His son, Jesse, the father of our subject, was born on the old farmstead, and was the youngest of the family. His early days were spent in school, and he became interested in farming, which he continued all his life. During his management of the farm, consisting of 150 acres, he made many improvements, and became well known as a raiser of fine stock. He married, in North Haven, Rosanna Bassett, a daughter of Isaac Bassett, and six children were born of his union: Merritt, George, John , Isaac, Edwin and Elizur. Mr. Clinton?s connection with the Congregational Church of North Haven began in his youth, and he lived an honest an upright life.
During his early youth our subject was a pupil in the district school, and later attended the North Haven Academy. He remained at home until he was eighteen, at which time he entered the factory at Clintonville, and later, with his brother, formed the partnership of Clinton Bros. in the manufacturing of carriage woodwork, prosecuting this successfully for twenty-five years, at which time Mr. Clinton?s health failed and he gave it up. A life on the farm seemed to promise a return to good health, and he then went into the dairy and fruit growing business on a tract of sixty acres of the original homestead farm. That his hopes were realized his present excellent health attests, the only medicine he needed being fresh air, sunshine, and contact with Nature. Mr. Clinton has proved that the Biblical assertion that man shall eat his bread in the sweat of his face is sometimes the greatest of blessing.
On May 12, 1858, Mr. Clinton was married, in Wallingford, to Garce Ann Allen, who was born in that town. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Clinton; Evelyn B., born May 7, 1859, is a dairyman and peach grower; he was married Feb. 14, 1888, to Florence A. Redfield, who was born July 10, 1863, and they have one child, Leroy W., born Nov. 25, 1889. Friend is a manufacturer of witch hazel at Higganum, Conn.; he married Helen G. Clark, of that place. Elbert married Clara G. Sanford, of Hamden, where they reside. Both Mr. Clinton and wife are members of the North Haven Grange, where their social qualities are much appreciated; they are connected with the North Haven Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Clinton is descended from an old and prominent family. Roger Allen came to New England in 1638. The parents of Mrs. Clinton were Hiram and Nancy (Button) Allen, the former born in 1806, and the latter in 1805; she died in 1885. Children as follows came to Mr. and Mrs. Allen: Franklin, born in 1832; Frances Augusta, born in 1836; Hiram; Grace Ann, born July 18, 1839; and Elenora Melvina, born in 1842. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Clinton, Newberry Button, was a native of North Haven; he was a fifer during the Revolutionary war, and was at Fort Griswold. Later he became a seafaring man. He married a daughter of James Pierpont, of North Haven.
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