Fayette County, West Virginia - Biography: C. E. CLAPPER ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company 1928 - Volume 5, page 95-96 (2 photos) C. E. CLAPPER is auditor of the New River Company, with home and headquarters at Macdonald. He has had a wide and extensive experience in mining and transportation organizations and has been with the New River company since 1920. Mr. Clapper was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, November 16, 1884. he was educated in public schools, graduated with honors in 1906 form a business college at Zanesville and the routine work that has afforded him opportunities for important service in the commercial world has done as accountant and stenographer. He was bookkeeper for the Wills Creek Coal Company at Cambridge, Ohio, for a short time, then became stenographer in the stores department of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, spending two years at Benwood, West Virginia, and Holloway, Ohio, and in October, 1908, located near Charleston, West Virginia, and in November, 1908, became mine office clerk of the New River Collieries Company at Prince, then being transferred from Prince to the main office at Sun, where he began as stenographer and eventually was promoted to chief clerk, the highest office in the field offices of that company. Mr. Clapper on January 1, 1920, came with the New River Company as bookkeeper in the accounting department. Three years later he was made chief accountant, and served in that position until October 4, 1927, when he was elected auditor of the company. Mr. Clapper, whose home is at Mount Hope, married, June 25, 1913, Miss Clara E. Gregg, of Cumberland, Ohio. They have one son, Robert, born September 11, 1914. Transcribed by (MRS GINA M REASONER), 1999 **********************************************************************