CLAREMONT  , a

city of Sullivan county, New Hampshire, U.S.A., situated in the W. part of the state, bordering on the Connecticut river . Pop . (189o) 5565; (1900) 6498 (1442 foreign-born); (1910) 7529 . Area, 6 sq. m . It is served by two branches of the Boston & Maine railway . In Claremont is the Fiske free library (1873), housed in a Carnegie building (1904) . The Stevens high school is richly endowed by the gift of Paran Stevens, a native of Claremont . The city contains several villages, the principal being Claremont, Claremont Junction and West Claremont . Sugar river, flowing through the city into the Connecticut and falling 223 ft.within the city limits, furnishes good water-power . Among the manufactures are woollen and cotton goods, paper, mining and quarrying machinery, rubber goods, linens, shoes, wood trim and pearl buttons . The first settlement here was made in 1762, and a township was organized in 1764; in 1908 Claremont was chartered as a city . It was named from Claremont, Lord Clive's country place .