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he was commissioned to accept the transfer of the province of Louisiana to the United States; and was appointed governor-general for three-years,

and served until 1817. He

was twenty years in the public service. He died Deo. 23, 1817, while a representative in the United States senate. Clancy, John M., capitalist, congressman, was bom May 7, 1837, in Ireland. He moved with his parents to New York; and was educated in the public schools of Brooklyn, N.Y.; he is in the real He business. estate served as an alderman of the city of Brooklyn in 1868-75; and was a member of the

New York

assembly

in

1878-81. In 1889-95 he was a representative to the fifty-first, fifty-

second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat; and seived on several important committees. Clap, Nathaniel, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 20, 1669, in Dorchester, Maine. He was the author of Advice to Children; and The Lord's Voice Crying to the People in Some Extraordinary Dispensations. He died Oct. 30, 1745, in Newport, R.I. Clap, Roger, author, was born April 6, 1609, in England. He was a colonist of Dorchester, whose Memoirs, written for his children, have been several times reprinted, and possess considerable historical value. He died Feb. 2, 1691, in Boston, Mass. Clap, Thomas, clergyman, college president, author, was born June 26, 1703, in Scituate, Mass. He was president of Yale college in '1740-66. He was the author of The Nature and Foundation of Moral Virtue and Obligation ; History of Yale College Vindication of the Doctrines of New England Churches; Nature and Motion of Meteors; and The Religious Constitutions of Colleges, Especially Yale. He died on Jan. 7, 1767, in New Haven, Conn.

Clapp, Asa, merchant, legislator, philanwas born March 15, 1762, in Mansfield, Mass. He was a state councilor; a delegate to the convention for framing the constitution of Maine in 1819; and several years a representative in the state legislature. He was noted for his benevolence. He died May 17, 1848, in Portland, Me.

thropist,

Asa W.

congressman, was born in 1805 in Portland, Maine. In 1847-49 he was a representative from Maine to the Clapp,

H.,

thirtieth congress. He died March 22, 1891, in Portland, Maine. Clapp, Cornelia Maria, educator, scientist, was born on March 17, 1849, in Montague, Mass. She is now a professor of zoBlogy in Mt. Holyoke college. She is a member of the

American association

for the

advancement

of science.

Clapp, Dexter E., soldier, was born in New York. In 1862 he became captain in the one hundred and forty eighth regiment New York volunteer infantry; and in 1865 attained the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers. He died June 20, 1882. Clapp, Eleanor Bassett, journalist, author,

was born in Pawtucket, R.I. Since 1896 she has been editor of McCall's Magazine in New York City. She is the author of The Courtesies.

Clapp,

Henry Austin,

jurist, author,

was

born in 1841 in Massachusetts. He was a dramatic critic of Boston, Mass. For many years he was clerk of the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts. He is the author of The Reminiscences of a Dramatic Critic. He died in 1904 in Boston, Mass. Clapp, Herbert Codman, physician, author, was born Jan. 31, 1846, in Boston, Mass. He is a homoeopathic physician; and makes a specialty of the diseases of the chest. Since 1855 he has been a professor in the Boston university school of medicine. He is the author of Is Consumption Contagious.

Clapp, Jacob Crawford, clergyman, educacollege president, was born Sept. 5, 1832, in Allemanee, N.C. Since 1865 he has been a minister; and since 1860 has 'been professor of ancient languages; and since 1862 has been president of Catawba college. tor,

Clapp, Moses Edwin, lawyer, United StatMay 21, 1851 in Del-

es senator, was born phi, Ind. He was reared

and educated in Wisconsin; and removed to Minnesota in 1881. In 1886-92 he was attorney general for the state of Minnesota. In 1901-03 he was a member of the United States senate; and is now serving the term ending in 1911. Clapp,

Ozro

Wright, journalist, banker,

was born Dec. 31, 1836, in Lee Center, 111. In 1887 he moved to New York and opened the banking and brokerage house of Clapp and company; and later established the Daily and Weekly Market Letters. Clapp, Theodore, clergyman, author, was born March 29, 1792, in Easthampton, Mass. In 1834 he adopted unitarian views and for

many

years the use of a large church in New Orleans was given him by its owner, free of expense. He was the author of Autobiographical Sketches of 35 Years' Residence in New Orleans, La.; Theological Views; and of Slavery, a sermon. He died May 17, 1866, in Louisville,

Ky.

Clapp, William Warland, journalist, was born April 11, 1836, in Boston, Mass. In 1847 he became editor and publisher of the Saturday Evening Gazette; and in 1865 became editor-in-chief of The Journal of Boston. He has served as councilman, alderman and state senator; and as trustee of the Boston public library. He died on Sept. 13, 1891 in Boston, Mass.