Spooner, Clapp
financier, was born June 11, 1824, in Fitzwilliam, N. H. When the Harnden Express company, with others, among them Phillips and Company's express, of which he was then part owner, determined to combine and incorporate the great system of the Adams Express company, he was one of the nine organizers of that company and has been identified with it ever since.
For many years one of its managers and superintendent of the New England division, he held the office of vice-president from 1887 until 1891, when he retired from active commercial life. He now devotes all of his time to the supervision, improvement and building up of his large tract of land, called Brooklawn park, the finest suburb of Bridgeport, Conn.