Ammo for Clarkson Cheers

[cth95]

Those North Country jokes may be more true than we thought. :-D Here is some fuel for this weekend and possibly many games to come. I noticed this article when I was at my mother's in Potsdam today (3/8).  I am sure someone can make good use of it. ::shifty::

Scroll down a couple of stories or go to the Potsdam bicentennial link to find this.  Can't wait to see everyone at the game Saturday.  LGR!!!!

http://www.northcountrynow.com/nc-this-week/story-of-day/default.asp


Celebrting (sic) Potsdam's 200th: Founding Clarkson family inbred extensively
By BILL SHUMWAY
POTSDAM – It was "all in the family" – literally – for the founders of the Town of Potsdam and Clarkson University.
Extensive inbreeding took place within the Clarkson families who played prominent roles in the establishment of the town, which is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year.
In fact, during the mid-1800s, three different families -- each created when Clarkson cousins married their cousins -- lived on what is now the Clarkson University hill campus, according to "The Clarkson Family of Potsdam," written in 1958 by Margaret Gurley Chapman and revised in 2001 by the Potsdam Public Museum:
• T. Streatfield Clarkson married his first cousin, Ann Mary Clarkson in 1852 and the couple lived in Holcroft House, now the Clarkson admissions office, their entire married life. Their children, Annie and Emilie, donated the hill campus land and $1.5 million in the late 1920s to Clarkson. T. Streatfield's parents – David and Elizabeth Streatfeild Clarkson -- were also cousins before they married.
• Thomas S. Clarkson II married his cousin, Elizabeth Clarkson, in 1830. The couple moved to Potsdam in 1840, and lived in the Clarkson mansion between Holcroft and Woodstock that burned in 1909. The couple had six children, including Thomas. S. Clarkson III, in whose memory Clarkson was founded in 1896. Thomas S. III, along with siblings Elizabeth, Levinus, Lavinia and Frederica never married. The only child to marry was Ann Mary, who married T. Streatfield Clarkson.
• Frances S. Clarkson married her cousin Augustus L. Clarkson, who built Woodstock Lodge in 1827. Francis, however, died in 1829, and Augustus later married Emily McVickar in 1852.
T. Streatfield, Thomas S. II and Frances were the three of Thomas S. (1763-1844) and Elizabeth (1771-1852) Clarkson's 11 children who eventually moved to Potsdam after having grown up at 33 Broadway in New York City. A fourth child of Thomas S. II and Elizabeth, Elizabeth Streatfeild Clarkson, married David Clarkson, in 1822, but she didn't move to Potsdam. However, T. Streatfield Clarkson was their son and he and wife Ann Mary Clarkson lived in Potsdam.
Elizabeth and Augustus were the children of Levinus Clarkson (1765-1845), who moved to Holcroft House in 1840, after retiring from a successful insurance career in New York City.
Many branches of the Clarkson family lived in Potsdam during the 1800s.
The original purchasers in 1802 were David M. Clarkson and Garret Van Horne, who were acting on behalf of a six-member trust. Van Horne eventually sold his shares in the trust to Matthew Clarkson, according to a brochure prepared by the Potsdam Public Museum as part of a 1996 exhibit on the Clarkson family.
In 1821, the town was parceled out to six cousins and a friend of the Clarksons. The cousins included Levinus Clarkson, who moved to Holcroft in 1840; Hermon LeRoy; William Bayard; John C. Clarkson, the first Clarkson to actually live in Potsdam when he moved into land agent Benjamin Raymond's farm after Raymond left in 1818 to establish what is now Raymondville; and Thomas S. Clarkson, grandfather of Thomas S. III, in whose memory what is now Clarkson University was founded. The friend was Nicholas Fish.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

That's just wrong ::wtf::

[jaybert]

"CLARKSON: KEEPING THE LOVE IN THE FAMILY SINCE 1806" (or whenever the year is)

[Robb]

While I love ribbing Clarkson about anything as much as the next guy, marrying cousins was quite common in this country in the 1800s. Check to be sure your own lineage is pure before casting aspersions...

[Will]

"Kissing cousins *clap clap clapclapclap*

Or, if you're feeling particularly daring around the ushers: "fucking cousins *clap clap clapclapclap*".

[jy3]

clarking sons? ::nut::
was there any mom-son action in the family (of course we are talking grown sons, no references to kids here)

[Rich S]

and of course, nothing like that could ever have taken place in Ithaca.  ::rolleyes::

[daredevilcu]

Damn.  A friend of mine found that article a few days ago and showed it to me, with the hopes that you guys wouldn't find it.  Somehow, I knew that was just impossible...

[RichH]

[quote Rich S]and of course, nothing like that could ever have taken place in Ithaca.  ::rolleyes::[/quote]

Ah, the expected "I know you are, but what am I?"  Classic.

Somehow, Ezra Cornell managed to marry someone without his own last name.  In fact he married outside the expectations of society:

From http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/99/2.11.99/Ezra_letter.html

[Q]Ezra Cornell's marriage to Mary Ann Wood was an act of rebellion for a young man at the time, Engst pointed out. He was a Quaker and her family was Episcopalian. When the Quakers read him out of the congregation for marrying outside of it, he wrote back unapologetically: "I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice and for that reason I never felt myself bound to be dictated in the affair by any higher authority than my own feelings."[/Q]

[ninian '72]

Reminds me of the old joke: "Where do West Virginia guys go to meet girls: Family reunions."

[oceanst41]

Points - Big Red...inbred :-P

[daredevilcu]

If you guys can get away with inbred, then we should also be able to get away with some of the less-creative more-offensive cheers...

[The Rancor]

no ties in the playoffs, but it would give new meaning to sister-kissing.

[RichS]

[quote RichH][quote Rich S]and of course, nothing like that could ever have taken place in Ithaca.  ::rolleyes::[/quote]

Ah, the expected "I know you are, but what am I?"  Classic.
[/quote]

No Rich, not at all...lol.

See your compatriot's post reminding us all that marraige within families was quite common in those days.

Where is your sense of history?  :-D

[French Rage]

Bah, I was years ahead of the curve with "POTSDAM WHITE TRASH".