David Augustus Clarkson

David Augustus Clarkson (September 6, 1793 – November 24, 1850) was a Hudson River valley landowner and member of several prominent families.

[6] The Clarkson country estate, a wooden frame home called "Chiddingstone," had a quarter mile front on the Hudson River and was one of the five subdivisions his father-in-law made to his children.

After her death in 1860, the property was sold to William H. Hunt of New Orleans for his wife Elizabeth Ridgely (a great-granddaughter of Chancellor Livingston through his daughter Margaret).

[1] Through his son Thomas, he was a grandfather of David Augustus Clarkson (1858–1952),[7] an 1881 Columbia graduate who served as president of the Real Estate Board of Brokers.

Charles Evans Hughes, an investigation into the system of giving title to real estate brokers.