Matthew Clarkson (October 17, 1758 – April 25, 1825) was an American Revolutionary War soldier and a politician in New York State United States. The town of Clarkson in Western New York was named after him. He was a great uncle of Thomas S. Clarkson, a member of the family who founded Clarkson University.
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“He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 4:2.