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Clinton, IL - History
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Welcome to the Clinton Home page. The Clinton Home page provides as much information as possible on Clinton. Knowing Clinton’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Clinton’s Home page, you will also find Clinton’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Clinton has a population of 6982. 47.5% of Clinton’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.5 are female. 43.1% of Clinton is married and 62.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $81,676, and the average rent is $693. Household median income in Clinton is $46,741, and the individual median income is $28,144. Clinton’s Ethnic is the following: White(96.9%), Hispanic(5.1%), Black(1.8%), Multiple(1.1%), Other(0.2%), Asian(0.1%).
The city was founded in 1835 by Jesse W. Fell of Bloomington, Illinois, a land speculator and lawyer, and James Allen, a representative in the Illinois State Legislature. The two men were on their way from Decatur, Illinois back to Bloomington after a business trip and stopped to rest their horses on the open prairie halfway between the two cities.
It occurred to them that this was an ideal location for a settlement, as there was nothing else nearby. They named the town in honor of DeWitt Clinton.Clinton is on the 8th Judicial Circuit, on which Abraham Lincoln traveled, along with Judge David Davis, for twenty years. Lincoln acted as lawyer because lawyers were scarce in the area at the time.One of the two registered historical locations in DeWitt County, the C.H.
Moore House, is located in Clinton. The house was purchased and improved by lawyer Clifton H. Moore in the 1880s, and is now the DeWitt County Museum. Moore's private library of more than 7,000 volumes was left to the city upon his death in 1901. These books would make up the first collection of the Vespasian Warner Public Library, founded by and named for Moore's son-in-law.In 1858, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech in Clinton to which the following quotation has been attributed: You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. on Sept.
18, according to Carl Sandburg. However, there is no official transcript of the speech. Lincoln's collected papers has a version of the speech taken from a contemporary copy in the Bloomington Pantagraph which doesn't contain it. It has also been attributed to a speech by Lincoln in Bloomington, IL two years earlier, and there is controversy over whether or not Lincoln ever said it at all.
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