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JOHN WILLIAM CLAPPER

John William Clapper who worked on farms about Lincoln township around 1880 married Julia Crow and they had a boy born to them whom they named Raymond. They moved to Kansas City where the boy learned the printer's trade and married into a very good family. He made up his mind that he needed a university education, so they were invited to live at his parents' home and they carried their luggage as they trudged off together afoot to Kansas University. He took three years in the journalism course and is now one of the principal men in the offices of the United Press at Washington, D. C. He was detailed to travel on the train with Harding during the presidential campaign and represented his company at the Kansas City National Republican convention nominating Hoover, and left there to do the work at the Houston convention. His Grandfather Clapper was brother to Mrs. Elihu Ireland, but never came to Kansas, keeping his home at Van Wert, Ohio. With Emma Lou Martin going to the national capital from the dairy maid contest this family has a generous share of honors.

(History of Linnn County, by William Ansel Mitchell, 1928, Pages 350-351)

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