The settling of Clawson was somewhat later than that of most of the communities of Emery County. It was not until the spring of 1897 that the first homesteads were taken up. Two or three years previously a canal to carry water from Ferron Creek had been started. This was completed in 1896. The little community was then called Kingsville. It lay about two moles east of the present Clawson. In these days people had to depend upon their own resources. They supplemented their diet with wild sego lily roots, bottle weed, and grease wood greens, which grew in abundance on all uncultivated land and on the hills.
