Clapp family

Biographical Note

Asa Clapp

• 1762, Mar. 15: Born, Mansfield, Mass.
• 1776: Enlisted, Revolutionary War
• 1787: Married Elizabeth Wendell Quincy
• 1796: Merchant in Portland, District of Maine
• 1811: Member, Council of the Commonwealth of Mass.
• 1816: Commissioner for subscriptions to Bank of the United States
• 1819: Member, Maine Constitutional Convention
• 1820 - 1823 : Member, Maine House of Representatives
• 1848, Apr. 17: Died, Portland, Maine

Asa W. H. Clapp

• 1805, Mar. 6: Born, Portland, Maine
• 1823: Graduated, Norwich Military Academy, Norwich, Vt.
• 1824 - 1848 : Portland, Maine, merchant involved in domestic and foreign shipping
• 1847 - 1849 : Member, United States House of Representatives
• 1848: 1852: Delegate, Democratic National Convention, Baltimore, Md.
• 1891, Mar. 22: Died, Portland, Maine

From the guide to the Clapp Family Papers, 1789-1935, (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)