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of the public library, of tlie Maine general hospi- tal and of other institutions. He was married to Julia M., daughter of Gen. Henry A. S. Dear- born of Roxbury, Mass. He died in Portland. Maine, March 22! 1891.

CLAPP, Herbert Codman, physician, was born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 31, 1846; son of John Codman and Lucy Ann (Blake) Clapp ; grandson of Joseph and Betsey (Tileston) Clapp : and a de- scendant of Nicholas and Sarah (Clap) Clap, who emigrated from England to Dorchester, Mass., in 1633. Nicholas was a cousin of Roger Clap, one of the first settlers of Dorchester, Mass., in 1630. Herbert C. Clapp was prepared for col- lege at the Roxbury Latin .school and was grad- uated from Harvard, A.B. in 1867, and A.M. and M.D. in 1870. He practised medicine in Boston, paying special attention to diseases of the lungs and heart. He was married Jan. 31, 1878, to Mary Ovington, daughter of Thomas Smith Rich- ardson of Brooklj-n, N.Y. He was instructor in auscultation and percussion in the Boston uni- versity school of medicine, 1878-81 ; lecturer on the same. 1881-86: professor of the history and methodology of medicine, 1886-88; and professor of diseases of the chest from 1886. In 1876 he be- came pliysician of the chest department of the homoeopathic medical dispensary, and in 1879 to the Massachusetts homoeopathic hospital. From 1877 to 1897 he was treasurer of the Massachu- setts homoeopathic medical society and in 1898 was elected its president. He had also previously served as secretary, treasurer and president of the Boston homoeopathic medical society. In September, 1898, he was appointed one of the two attending phj-sicians to the Massachusetts hos])i- tal for consimiptives and tubercular patients just completed by the state at Rutland, Mass., and opened in October, 1898. He was editor of the Nexo England Medical Gazette in 1879, 1880 and 1881. His published writings include, besides numerous contributions to current literature: Auscidtatioii and Pei'cussion, a text book (1878; 11th ed., 1895) ; Is Consumption Contagions ? (1880) ; treatises on Pulmonary Phthisis, Physical Diagnosis and Tuber- culosis in Arndt's System of Medicine {1885).

CLAPP, Jacob Crawford, educator, was born at Alamance, Guilford county, N.C., Sept. 5, 1832 ; son of Joshua and Delila (Huffman) Clapp ; grandson of Jacob and Eve (Cortner) Clapp and of George and Elizabeth (Schaffner) Huffman. His first American ancestors were Palatinates from Hesse Castle, Germany, who settled in Pennsyl- vania and migrated thence about 1745 to Guilford county, N.C. He was prepared for college by private instruction and by a brief course in the preparatory department of Catawba college and "was graduated from Amherst in 1857. He taught

school for one year at his native place and for one year at Boltons, Miss. In 1860 he became professor of Latin and Greek in Catawba col- lege, Newton, N.C, and in 1862 was elected its president. He was ordained a minister in the Reformed church in 1865 and held several charges in North Carolina. He was married July 4, 1860, to Emma, daughter of Thomas Barnum Lewis of Boltons, Miss. Ursinus college conferred upon him the degree of D.D. in 1883.

CLAPP, Theodore, clergyman, was born in Easthami^ton, Mass., March 29, 1792; son of Thaddeus and Achsah (Parsons) Clapp; and a lineal descendant in the seventh generation from Roger and Johanna (Ford) Clapp, who left Ply- mouth, England, for New England in 1630, and were among the first settlers of Dorchester, Mass. He was graduated at Yale in 1814 and after study- ing a year at Andover theological seminary, was licensed as a Congregational minister. He then spent a year as chaplain and tutor in a private family in Kentucky, and early in 1822 became pastor of the First Presbyterian church in New Orleans, La. He was married May 31, 1822, to Adeline Hawes of LouisviUe, Kj-., and on Sept. 12, 1822, was formally ordained a Congregational minister, at Easthampton, Mass. In 1834 he formed a Unitarian church, being followed by all but about a half dozen of his parishioners. Dur- ing his pastorate he witnessed twenty epidemics of cholera and yellow fever in New Orleans, and remained in the city in active labor, being at times the only Protestant minister at his post. Ill health compelled him to resign his charge in 1857, and he removed to Louisville, Ky. He is the author of : Autobiographical S/cetches and Pec- ollections of a Thirty-Jive Tears' Besidence in Keio Orleans (1858); and Tlieological Fieira (1859). He died at Louisville, Ky., May 17, 1866.

CLAPP, William Warland, journalist, was born in Boston, Mass., April 11, 1826, son of Wil- liam Warland and Hannah W. (Lane) Clapp. His father founded the Boston Daily Advertiser in 1813, and was for thirty years the proprietor of the Saturday Evening Gazette. The son's education was acquired through private instruction and two years of foreign study and ti'avel. From 1849 to 1865 he was sole proprietor of the Satur- day Evening Gazette, and in the latter year pur- chased an interest in the Boston Journal. He was member of the common council in 1859 and 1860, of the board of aldermen in 1864 and 1865, and of the state senate in 1866. He was also an aid to Governor Banks and was on the staff of Governor Andrew. In 1865 he became associated in the management of the Journal ; in 1869 was made an associate editor, and later undertook the sole management of the paper. He was for