Routt-Moffat County CO Archives Biographies.....Clapp, Charles L.  October 28, 1862 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Having received a good scholastic training in the schools of his native

place, and having since acquired in the practical and thorough school of

experience a more valuable education in mechanical lines and knowledge of men

and affairs, Charles L. Clapp is a wise, well-informed and very practical man

and citizen, and is generally esteemed as such.  He was born in Dutchess county,

New York, on October 28, 1862, and after leaving school acquired a knowledge of

surveying and learned the trade of a pattern maker.  He had valuable experience

as marine engineer on the Hudson river, and also in other capacities in a

mechanical and professional way.  In 1887 he came to Colorado and with

headquarters at Canon City he became associated with the Denver & Rio Grande

Railroad in the capacity of bridge builder, helping to build all the iron

bridges on the road between Denver and Grand Junction.  He was afterward

associated with the Western Coal and Machinery Company of Denver for two years

and installed machinery for it in Iowa, Illinois and other states.  For two

years previous to taking up his present ranch he was interested in ranching on

Elk Head creek in Routt county in company with the same parties in Denver.  Then

in November, 1891, he took a homestead right to the ranch he now owns which

comprises one hundred and sixty acres and is located on Fortification creek,

twenty-seven miles north of Craig.  While general farm products are raised in

abundance cattle and horses are the principal products of interest and profit. 

Mr. Clapp has the reputation of raising the best horses in this section of Routt

county.  His stock is standard bred, his stud including the well-known

thoroughbred stallion Don John.  The ranch is considered one of the best in the

neighborhood and all its products are of first-rate quality.  Mr. Clapp is a

stanch Republican in national politics and is public-spirited and far-seeing in

reference to local affairs.  He is a son of Clinton W. and Katherine S. Clapp,

natives of New York state.  The father is a broker and money lender at Wappinger

Falls, New York.  They have had six children, one of whom, Warren H., died in

March, 1879.  The five living are Benjamin F., George M., Charles L., Walter C.

and Jason E.  Their mother died in 1870.

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905



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