Frank Lemuel Clapp, 1871-1953
No. 8423 Frank L
emuel Clapp, photograph at the Dorchester Historical Society
Source: The Lemuel Clap Chart 1630-1902-1961 by Frederick Lewis Weis. Dublin, NH, 1961.
Deacon and Major Frank Lemuel Clapp was born June 2, 1871, and died in Dorchester, June 26, 1953, aged 82 years. He married Bessie Jones, and they had no children. He was a Deacon at the First Parish Church in Dorchester; he took a degree as an engineer from MIT in 1922. He sold the remainder of the Clapp estate including the William Clapp House, the Lemuel Clap House, carriage house and barn to the Dorchester Historical Society at a very reduced price in 1946, and lived in the William Clapp House as caretaker until his death.
No. 19993 Frank Lemuel Clapp, January 1, 1902, photograph at the Dorchester Historical Society