Clapp William M was born in Ellington, Tolland County, Conn. on Dec. 18, 1817, from which place he removed with his father in 1822 to Ashtabula County, Ohio, and lived there and in that vicinity until sometime in 1842, when he went to Peru, Ind. and entered a law office and read law until the last of March 1843 when he removed to Augusta, then the county seat of Noble County, and commenced the practice of law, and has from that time to his demise been a resident of this county. Nov. 14, 1847 he married Mary A. Skinner. She died Nov. 14, 1875. She had 2 sons, W. Frank and Charles M, both residents of Albion; and one daughter, Adella, the wife of Thomas A. Starr, editor of the Hicksville, O. News. On Dec. 25, 1877 he married Angie Skinner, a cousin of his first wife, who survives him. He was judge of the court of common pleas for a number of years, member of the state legislature and delegate to the Chicago convention in 1880 which nominated Garfield for the presidency. > 1-6-1881
Clapp William M was born in Ellington, Tolland County, Conn. on Dec. 18, 1817, from which place he removed with his father in 1822 to Ashtabula County, Ohio, and lived there and in that vicinity until sometime in 1842, when he went to Peru, Ind. and entered a law office and read law until the last of March 1843 when he removed to Augusta, then the county seat of Noble County, and commenced the practice of law, and has from that time to his demise been a resident of this county. Nov. 14, 1847 he married Mary A. Skinner. She died Nov. 14, 1875. She had 2 sons, W. Frank and Charles M, both residents of Albion; and one daughter, Adella, the wife of Thomas A. Starr, editor of the Hicksville, O. News. On Dec. 25, 1877 he married Angie Skinner, a cousin of his first wife, who survives him. He was judge of the court of common pleas for a number of years, member of the state legislature and delegate to the Chicago convention in 1880 which nominated Garfield for the presidency. > 1-6-1881
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