Clinton (Iowa)

Clinton County

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Clinton is a city in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Iowa and the administrative seat of Clinton County, on the Mississippi. In 2010, the city had 26,885 inhabitants. Together with DeWitt - located in Clinton County also - the city has been named after DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828), the seventh governor of New York. Clinton is the leading city in the Clinton Micropolitan Statistical Area.

History

Among the first European settlers who arrived in the area of present-day Clinton, it was Elijah Buell, who built a log house and on July 25, 1835 founded named after the French city of Lyons place.

Clinton was applied as planned in 1836 as New York by Joseph Bartlett.

In March 1837 Noble and Sarah Gregory Perrin purchased 136 acres (0.55 km ²) of land on which now stands the city of Clinton. The family lived in a hut that stands on a site that is located at the foot of present-day railway bridge. The eldest daughter of the family, Valerie, married Dr. Augustus Lafayette Ankeny, who participated in the Black Hawk War and in 1850 came to Lyons. With Mary Perrin, the first child of European descent born in Clinton on September 26, 1837. In 1839 the city was similar to most early river towns only from a number of scattered houses, two stores and a tavern. In 1855 the Chicago, Iowa, Nebraska Railroad announced that a river crossing at Little Rock Iceland, in the immediate vicinity of Bartlett's settlement, is to be built. The Iowa Land Company organized the purchase of Bartletts country and named on July 4, 1855, the settlement thereon in honor of the governor of New York in Clinton around.

On November 10, 1855, Cadastre of Clinton was first created. In June 1859, the railway line to Cedar Rapids, Iowa was completed. The first train crossed from the Illinois shore, take the island of Little Rock Iceland at noon on January 9, 1860, and sat on the Iowa shore over. In January 1864 started the construction of a bridge from the Iowa shore to Little Rock Iceland, which was completed on January 6, 1865. The original single-track railway bridge was replaced in 1909 by a two-pronged. The first road bridge from Lyons to Fulton, Illinois, was built in 1891 and 1975, replaced by the present structure.

The first public school was established in a log cabin next to the mill, which was built in the winter 1855-56.

From the 1850s to 1900 the towns of Lyons and Clinton quickly became centers of the timber industry, and they spoke of the Lumber Capital of the World (World Capital of the wood industry). Huge rafts came from Wisconsin and Minnesota, to be processed in Clinton and Lyons on timber. From there they were shipped to the growing cities or transported by rail. Companies such as W. J. Young, Chancy Lamb, Curtis Bros. & Co., David Joyce and Frederick Weyerhaeuser soon became the largest in the country. More than any other city in the U.S. - - In the 1880s and 1890s Clinton boasted 13 millionaires to count to its inhabitants. The most elaborate festival that has ever been celebrated in Clinton, was the debutante ball of Emma Lamb and the 20th wedding anniversary of their parents, Artemus and Henrietta Sabrina Smith Lamb, in October 1885. It was attended with FC Weyerhauser another timber magnate and several hundred other guests participate.

Around 1900, ended this time, since the forests were cut down largely to the north. The sawmill closed, but the railway and the river offered good transport links in all directions, so that factories and heavy industry settled. The city still boasted of its numerous magnificent Victorian mansions, as well as the House of Curtis family, which now houses the Clinton Woman's Club.

The first road bridge between Lyons and Fulton was built in 1891 and 1975, replaced by the bridge named after Mark N. Norris. The second road bridge from Clinton, the Clinton High Bridge, was completed in 1892 and replaced by the Gateway Bridge in 1956.

The American Protective Association, an anti - Catholic organization, was founded on 13 March 1887 by the Attorney Henry Francis Bowers in Clinton.

1941 the team won the Clinton High School beneath her coach Howard Judd the first (of 11 ) championship titles of Iowa in swimming. Between 1954 and 1958, followed by five consecutive championships won. Among the achievements of athletes from Clinton came in 1953 winning the basketball championship of Iowa and 1991, winning the Midwest League baseball championship by the Clinton Giants.

2005 Clinton was recorded with Coon Rapids and Sioux City in the list of Iowa Great Places ( important Places of Iowa ). This brought a donation of $ 1 million from the budget for culture and landscape of the State of Iowa for the embellishment of his buildings along the river bank for the city.

Economy

The largest employers in Clinton are:

Archer Daniels Midland ( ADM), which originate from a mill operating food group ( http://www.admworld.com )
Ashford University, a private university ( http://www.ashford.edu )
Bemis Clysar, packaging manufacturer ( http://www.bemis.com )
DairyPak, Verpackungsmitteldhersteller, a subsidiary of Evergreen Packaging Company ( http://www.evergreenpackaging.com )
DM Services Inc., a subsidiary of Swiss Colony, a mail order company for specialty cheeses and confectionery ( http://www.swisscolony.com )
Collis Inc. ( http://www.macraesbluebook.com/search/company.cfm?company=713202 )
Custom Pak, Inc., manufacturer of plastic castings ( http://www.custom-pak.com )
Data Dimensions, service providers and system house ( http://www.datadimensions.com )
Lamson & Sessions, manufacturer of water installation and electrical goods ( http://www.lamson-sessions.com )
Lyondell Chemical Company, subsidiary of Chemical Company ( http://www.lyondell.com )
Medical Associates, Hospital ( http://www.maclinton.com )
Mercy Medical Center, Hospital ( http://www.mercyclinton.com )
Nestlé Purina pet food producers, to the Nestlé group belonging ( http://www.purina.com )
Rock Tenn Company, a manufacturer of paper and Verpackungsmittleln ( http://www.rocktenn.com )
Sethness Products Company, food group ( http://www.sethness.com )

Parks and recreational facilities

Clinton has many parks. The best known are the Eagle Point Park and Riverview Park. The Bickelhaupt Arboretum is a nonprofit arboretum run with one of the largest collections of dwarf conifers in North America.

Culture and Sport

Ashford University (formerly The Franciscan University and Mount St. Clare College ( http://www.ashford.edu ) )
Clinton Community College ( http://www.eicc.edu/general/clinton )
Clinton LumberKings, baseball team, farm team of the Seattle Mariners in the Minor League Baseball ( http://www.lumberkings.com )
Kunstverein Clinton ( http://www.clintonarts.com )
Clinton Area Showboat Theatre ( http://www.clintonshowboat.org )
Museum of the Historical Society of Clinton ( http://www.rootsweb.com/ ~ iacchs / index.htm)
Symphony of Clinton ( http://www.clintonsymphony.org )
Zeitgemössisches Ballet ( http://www.gatewayballet.org )

Architecture

The Van Allen Building, which was added to the National Historic Landmarks, was built by the architect Louis Sullivan in 1914.

The following buildings were included in the National Register of Historic Places:

Clinton County Courthouse, built in 1892-1897 by architects Stanley Mansfield and Josiah Rice in Romanesque Revival style. The outer walls are made of red sandstone and granite. The existing copper turret roof has covered over the years with a green Pattina. The well-known architect Claire Allen from Jackson, Michigan also worked on the building.
Clinton Public Library, funded by Andrew Carnegie and built in 1903 /04, designed by the Chicago architectural firms Patton & Miller in the neoclassical style.
Lafayette Lamb Home ( YMCA ), built in 1877 by architect WW Sanborn and rebuilt in 1906. The house was originally built in the Empire style, with the " modernization" in 1906 it was converted into a style that is very similar to the Georgian architecture.
City National Bank ( First National Bank), designed by John Morrell & Son neo-classical style and built in 1912/13,
Howes Building, built in 1900 for Edward Madison Howes by architect Josiah Rice 's Renaissance
Ankeny Building, built in 1930, designed by the Chicago architect Harold Holmes in the Art Deco style.
Moeszinger - Marquis ( Armstrong ) Building, designed and built by Josiah Rice and 1891 by William Bentley for the Clinton Produce Company. 1907 Baldwin Bros. acquired the company the building for its own hardware wholesaler in 1912 followed this the Moeszinger - Marquis Hardware Company. R. W. Armstrong in 1941 bought the building.
George M. Curtis Mansion (Women 's Club ), 1883/84 built in the Queen Anne style
Castle Terrace Historic District, originally created in 1892 in order to present urban planners, architects and builders, the products and technologies of the Curtis Company. Architecturally dominated especially the replica of the Tudor style.
Cherry Bank, built in 1870/71

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Clinton 26,885 people in 11,246 households. The population density was 291.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 11,246 households lived statistically 2.33 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 91.0 percent white, 4.3 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian and 1.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 3.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

23.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.1 percent were 65 years or older. 51.5 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was $ 41,911. The per capita income was $ 21,908. 15.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Sons and daughters of the town

Steve Cramer, chief financial officer and managing director of Mercury Marine ( world's largest manufacturer of marine engines )
Chancy Lamb, timber manufacturer
W. J. Young, timber manufacturer
David Joyce, timber manufacturer
John Delbert Van Allen, haberdasher and department store owner
Lillian Russell, singer and actress
Robert Drouet, actor and screenwriter
Muriel Frances Dana, a child actress in silent films
Felix Adler, "King of Clowns" occurred, for 28 years at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Marquis Childs, columnist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Robert Bruce Horsfall, Illustrator
Raymond J. Lynch, lawyer, president of the court
Peggy Moran, actress
Allen E. Paulson, Manager of Gulfstream Aerospace
William Theisen, founder of the restaurant chain Godfather's Pizza
Matthew Bentley, wrestler in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
LaMetta Wynn, first African-American Mayor in Iowa
David Carl Hilmer, NASA astronaut
Larry Mac Duff, football professional
Krista Voda, sports reporter
William S. Jacobsen, Congressman
George Allesee former baseball player for the Chicago White Sox
Salvatore Giunta, U.S. Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army, supporting the Medal of Honor

Those who worked in Clinton

Judith Ellen Foster, a lawyer, law professor, chairman of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, an early representative of feminism
Dale Allan Gardner, NASA astronaut
Bernhard M. Jacobsen, Congressman
Hans -Ulrich Klose, German politician, was staying as an exchange student in Clinton

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