Clapp, Lorin B.

CLAPP

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 7/5/2021 at 00:52:30

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.588

CLAPP, LORIN B., Indianola, salesman; was born in South Hampton, Mass., in 1827, and removed with his parents to Litchfield, Medina county, in 1831; his youth was spent on a farm and in a store; he came to Warren county in 1856, and he has been selling goods almost the entire time since he became a resident of the county; he married Miss Magdaline Wells in January, 1851; she died in September, 1857; he married for his second wife Miss Rebecca Fitzgerald in December, 1860; they have two daughters, twins: Martha and May, born March 20, 1862.