CLINTON, a village of Oneida county, N.Y., U.S.A., 9m. S.W. of Utica, on Oriskany creek and the New York, Ontario and Western railway. The population in 1930 Federal census was 1,475. There are mineral springs and iron mines in the vicinity, and the village has knitting and paint mills and vegetable can neries. Many business men of Utica make it their home. It is the seat of Hamilton college for men (opened as an academy in 1798 and chartered as a college in 1812), which was founded by Samuel Kirkland (1741-1808), a missionary among the Oneida Indians, and named after Alexander Hamilton. Its corner stone was laid by Baron von Steuben; and its shade-trees were presented by Thomas Jefferson. Litchfield observatory, connected with the college, was long in charge of C.H.F. Peters, who there discovered over 4o asteroids and made extensive investigations concerning comets. The village, settled about 1786 by pioneers from New England, was named after George Clinton, and was incorporated in 1843. It was the birthplace, and the summer home, of Elihu Root.