General Matthew Clarkson was an extensive landowner in this locality, who gave 100 acres (405,000 m²) to the town.
He was the great-great-grandson of Reverend David Clarkson (1622–1686), a notable Puritan clergyman in Yorkshire, England, whose sermons included "The Doctrine of Justification is Dangerously Corrupted by the Roman Church."
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