CLINTON, a city in the extreme eastern part of Iowa, U.S.A., on the Mississippi river where the Lincoln highway crosses it ; the county seat of Clinton county. It is on the Burlington, the Chi cago and North Western, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific, the Rock Island, the Clinton, Davenport and Muscatine, and the Davenport, Rock Island and Northwestern railways. The population in 1920 was 24,151, of whom 3,739 were foreign-born white (1,573 Germans) ; and in 1930, Federal census 25,726. The city lies about 600ft. above sea-level, and has a background of hills to the west and rocky bluffs to the north. Part of the river front is developed as a public park. The streets are shaded with magnificent trees, and there are many beautiful old residences (some of them now used by civic organizations) built by the saw-mill millionaires when Clinton was a great lumbering town. At present it is a manufacturing and jobbing centre of im portance, with an annual factory output valued at $30,000,000 and bank deposits amounting to over $18,000,000. There is a large corn-syrup refinery. Among the other manufactures are fur niture, sash and doors, locks, wire screen, boilers and tanks, mail cranes, steel bridges, and structural iron work. Clinton was founded in 18S5 by the Iowa Land company. It took the name of the county, which was called after De Witt Clinton.