History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . a quiet, unostentatious man, ofgood repute. He held the various town offices of im-portance with credit, and was called out to defend thecoast in the war of 1812. His children were Lucius(8), and Charles, who died, aged nineteen, in was a young man of more than ordinary ability,quiet and unassuming in his manners, honorable andupright in his life, making friends of all who came incontact with him. He was a good scholar, having,beside his common-school education, studied seve
History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . a quiet, unostentatious man, ofgood repute. He held the various town offices of im-portance with credit, and was called out to defend thecoast in the war of 1812. His children were Lucius(8), and Charles, who died, aged nineteen, in was a young man of more than ordinary ability,quiet and unassuming in his manners, honorable andupright in his life, making friends of all who came incontact with him. He was a good scholar, having,beside his common-school education, studied severalterms at an academy, and was engaged in a course ofstudies at the normal school in Bridgewater, prepar-ing himself for future usefulness, of which he gavegreat promise, when he was prostrated by consump-tion. Lucius Clapp is the eighth in direct descent fromThomas, the emigrant, and was born in North Bridge-water (now Brockton), Mass. He was educated atcommon and private schools ; was reared a farmer;took pride in agriculture, and has always followedthat avocation, and is to-day one of the representative. ^#^^^^
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