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Claflin, William – Clardy, Martin Linn
Claflin, William
business man, state senator, congressman, was born March 6, 1818, in Milford, Mass. He was a representative in the legislature from 1849 to 1852; a state senator in 1860 and 1861, and the last year president of the senate. He was lieutenant-governor from 1866 to 1869; governor from 1870 to 1872, and was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-fifth and fortysixth congresses.
Claiborne, Thomas
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1793 to 1799, and again from 1801 to 1805.
Clap, Nathaniel
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 20, 1669, in Dorchester, Maine. He was clergyman of Newport, of some distinction in his day, and is 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 a congregational clergyman of distinction, and president of Yale college in 1740-66. He is 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 Jan. 7, 1767, in New Haven, Conn.
Clapp, Asa
merchant, legislator, was 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 benevolence and rectitude. He died May 17, 1848, in Portland, Me.
Clapp, Asa W. H
congressman, was born in Maine. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1847 to 1849.
Clapp, Ozro Wright
journalist, banker, was born Dec. 31, 1836, in Lee Center, Ill. In 1887 he moved to New York and opened the banking and brokerage house of Clapp and Company, and later on he established the Clapp and Company Daily and Weekly Market Letters.
Clapp, Theodore
clergyman, author, was born March 29, 1792, in Easthampton, Mass. He was a unitarian minister of New Orleans for many years, and the author of Autobiographical Sketches of 35 Years' Residence in New Orleans; Theological Views; and Slavery, a Sermon. He died May 17, 1866, in Louisville, Ky.
Clapp, William Warland
journalist, was born April 11, 1826, 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 trustee of the Boston public library.
He died Sept. 13, 1891.
Clardy, John D
business man, congressman, was born Aug. 30, 1828, in Smith county, Tenn. He was elected to represent Christian county in the constitutional convention in 1890. He was appointed and served as one of the state commissioners to the Columbian exposition at Chicago in 1893; and was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat.
Clardy, Martin Linn
lawyer, congressman, was born April 26, 1844, in St. Genevieve county, Mo. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the fortysixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, fortyninth and fiftieth congresses as a democrat.