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Raymond Clapper, newspaper correspondent, was born May 30, 1892, in La Cygne, Kansas. He was the son of John William and Julia (Crow) Clapper. Clapper began his journalistic career as a reporter for the Kansas City Star in 1916. Later that year he joined the United Press Association in Chicago.

From 1916 to 1933 he worked for UP offices in Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, New York and Washington, D.C. as night man and chief political writer. He then became special writer for the Washington Post in 1934 and later went to the Scripp-Howard newspaper in January 1936. He was killed in an airplane crash on February 3, 1944, while covering the invasion of the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific.

From the guide to the The collection is a scrapbook of newspaper clippings compiled by the Watson Library staff from various publications in 1944 immediately after the report of Clapper's death., 1944, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection)

J.H. Shimmons was a business partner of J.H. Lane in a Lawrence sawmill from 1856 through 1859.

From the guide to the Newspaper Clippings regarding J.H. Shimmons' version of the Lane Jenkins affair, September 26-November 14, 1901, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection)