Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Clapper, John December 5, 1835 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

JOHN CLAPPER,
a farmer of Frankstown township, and a descendant of one of the old
Scotch-Irish families of Blair county, is a son of George and Catherine
(Fornwalt) Clapper, and was born near Flowing Spring, Frankstown township,
Blair county, Pennsylvania, December 5, 1835. The Clappers of this county are
of Scotch-Irish extraction, and Manuel Clapper, the paternal grandfather of
the subject of this sketch, was born in Scotland, which country he left in
the latter part of the eighteenth century to settle at Franklin Forges, in
what is now Catharine township. He followed farming, and married and reared a
family of five children, two sons and three daughters. One of these sons was
George Clapper (father), whose life was given to agricultural pursuits. He
was born at Franklin Forges in 1806, and died near Flowing Spring, October 8,
1869. He was a whig and republican in political affairs, and a prominent and
useful member of the United Brethren church. In May, 18234, Mr. Clapper
married Catherine Fornwalt, who died November 5, 1885, at the age of
eighty-two years. They reared a family of eleven children, of whom five are
yet living, three sons and two daughters.
   John Clapper was reared on the farm and carefully trained to agricultural
pursuits. He received his education in the common schools at Canoe Creed, and
then engaged in farming, which he has followed in Frankstown township
continuously and very successfully ever since.
March 22, 1872, Mr. Clapper was united in marriage with Sarah Walls, daughter
of Eli Walls, of Frankstown township. To their union have been born four
children, of whom two are living: James M. and Mercy M.
   In politics John Clapper supports the principles of the Republican party. He
tills a productive farm of 10.52 acres, and raises good crops of grain. Mr.
Clapper is a steady, industrious man, and a successful farmer, and his
paternal ancestors were of that resolute and enterprising Scotch-Irish race
which settled in Pennsylvania, where they aided in the defense of the
frontier against the Indians, and became a thrifty element of population.

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