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Willard, Joseph Clapp

was born Nov. 11, 1820, at Westminster, Vt. Returning from California after a successful career financially, he decided to locate in Washington, D.

C., then scarcely more than an infant city, where he associated himself with his brothers, Edwin Dorr and Henry Augustus, in Willard's Hotel, originally known as Fuller's City Hotel. After having been for years identified with Willard's Hotel, Mr.

Willard became in 1892 sole owner of the property which is yet in his hands. It is the best known hotel in the United States.