Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Clampitt, Mrs. Margaret M. 
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Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Pages 74 - 75
Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

     MRS. MARGARET M. CLAMPITT, who died at Los Angeles September 18, 1928, 
was throughout her long residence in Southern California distinguished by the 
charm of personal character and most worthy social leadership. She had 
combined beauty of character with intellectual accomplishments, and few women 
of her wealth and social position were so generous of their gifts and showed a 
more constant willingness to work for that highest good which is the 
improvement of the common lot of humanity.

     To the circle of her intimate friends and acquaintances she was 
constantly bringing new interests and inspiration, and it would be only exact 
justice to claim for her some share of the credit for the success of many 
promising social and cultural movements.

     Mrs. Clampitt had come to Los Angeles as the bride of the late Edward A. 
Clampitt, whom she survived just nine years. Her birth occurred in Livingston 
County, Illinois. Her parents were Herman and Nancy (Hallam) Wright, her 
mother being of a noted English family, many of whom were prominent in arts 
and letters. Nancy Hallam's grandfather built the first theater in 
Philadelphia. Herman Wright came from the Wright family of Maryland, land 
owners and prominent Colonial settlers around Baltimore and Hagerstown. Before 
going to Illinois Herman Wright was a merchant and hotel proprietor in 
Washington, Pennsylvania, a famous city in the southwestern part of the state, 
long noted as a religious and social center.

     Mrs. Clampitt had that education which is a product of a constant 
intellectual curiosity carried through all the years after leaving school. Her 
formal education was given her in the public schools of Kansas, and she 
attended the Kansas Normal University at Salina. The women of Southern 
California cannot think of Mrs. Clampitt without associating her with her 
sister, Mrs. Rae Johnson. They were singularly close in their lives and in 
their ideals and literary and social undertakings. Her sister became the wife 
of Harry T. Johnson, and both Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Clampitt were for many 
years closely associated in their business undertakings. Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. 
Clampitt were the founders of the Literary La Camarada Club at Los Angeles.

     During the World war Mrs. Clampitt was chairman of the food committee in 
her precinct and took part in the sugar distribution. Intense patriotism was 
one of her outstanding characteristics. She was for many years a member of the 
Republican State Central Committee and a member of the Casa del Mar Beach Club 
and the Edgewater Beach Club. She had been a member of the Ebell Club of Los 
Angeles since 1904.

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