Samuel Cluckston Explained

Samuel Cluckston
Office:Member of the
House of Representatives
of the
Colony of Connecticut
from Norwalk[1]
Term Start:October 1739
Term End:October 1740
Predecessor:Joseph Platt,
John Betts, Jr.
Alongside:James Lockwood
Successor:James Lockwood,
Thomas Benedict
Birth Date:November 17, 1696 [2]
Birth Place:Fairfield, Connecticut Colony
Death Date:1751
Death Place:Norwalk, Connecticut Colony
Residence:Norwalk, Connecticut Colony
Spouse:Deborah Ketchum
Children:Mary Cluckstone Perry
Occupation:Hat manufacturer
Rank:Captain

Samuel Cluckston (also Samuel Cluxton, Samuel Cluckstone and Samuel Klugston) (November 17, 1696 – 1751) was a member of the House of Representatives of the Colony of Connecticut from Norwalk in the sessions of October 1739 and May 1740. He was Norwalk town treasurer for several years.[3]

He was the son of Michael Cluckston, and Mary Wakeman of Fairfield.[2]

He established a hat manufacturing business in Norwalk as early as 1709. He was the first known hat maker in Norwalk, which would become Norwalk's largest industry by 1845.[3] [4]

One of the founding members of St. Paul's on the Green.[5]

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=YCgBAAAAYAAJ&dq=Samuel+Cluckston&pg=PA78 An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Norwalk, Connecticut
  2. "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/M71N-WJB : accessed 2014-06-02), entry for Samuel CLUGSTON.
  3. http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/business/article/Hat-mill-condos-to-be-auctioned-in-Norwalk-422767.php Stamford Advocate
  4. http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/cthistory/81.ch.05.x.html The Rise of Organized Labor in Nineteenth Century Connecticut Case Study: The South Norwalk Hatters
  5. https://books.google.com/books?id=cjVKAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Samuel+Cluckston%22&pg=PA39 Norwalk