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]
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^An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Norwalk, Connecticut
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