Charles Clapp, Warren County, Ohio

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Contributor::	Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 27 November 2004
Sources:	The History of Warren County Ohio Part V. Biographical Sketches Turtlecreek Township (Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)
Related Links:	Union Village and the Shakers of Warren County, Ohio

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CHARLES CLAPP, Shaker business agent. This amiable and polished .gentleman is -a member of the Shaker Community at Union Village, Warren Co., Ohio, where he has been since 1846. His parents, Ezra and Grace (Mathers) Clapp, were of English descent, but natives of Massachusetts, where they kept a hotel until 1800 when they moved to Lewis County, N. Y., and located on a large tract of land where Charles was born June 2, 1807. He received a liberal education in the common schools and then attended the Westfield and Leicester Academies, where his education was completed. In 1827, when 20

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years of age, he emigrated to Ohio and embarked in a mercantile enterprise, keeping what is known as a general store in Ravenna, where he remained thirteen years. He subsequently moved to Summit County and engaged in the same business. He was married in September, 1831, to Miss Harriet Kent, daughter of Zenith Kent, a wealthy merchant and banker of Kent, Ohio. Their union was blest with six children, as follows: Harriet L., deceased; Charles H., deceased; Charles K., Cashier First National Bank, Kent, Ohio; Ella M., wife of John M. Southwick, a wholesale leather dealer of New York; George A., doing business in New York; and Edward Lewis, a citizen of San Francisco Mr. and Mrs. Clapp were, previous to 1846, members of the Presbyterian Church, but in the above year he became converted to the Shaker faith and joined that society with which he has since continued.

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