Background
Clapp, Augustus Wilson was born on February 9, 1877 in Hudson, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Newel Harvey and Sarah Elizabeth (Jones) Clapp.
Clapp, Augustus Wilson was born on February 9, 1877 in Hudson, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Newel Harvey and Sarah Elizabeth (Jones) Clapp.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1898.
Admitted to Minnesota bar, 1901. Member Clapp & Macartney, Saint Paul, 1901-1906. Chief law officer to commissioner to Five Civilized Tribes, Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1906-1907.
Member Rodgers & Clapp, Muskogee, 1907-1912.
Member Clapp & Macartney, Saint Paul, and successors since 1912 (senior member Clapp, Briggs, Gilbert & Macartney, 1922-1940). Vice president, general counsel, director and member Executive Committee Weyerhaeuser Timber Company of Tacoma since 1932.
Moved to Tacoma 1940. Chief labor section, priorities division, War Indus.
Board, 1918.
Member Clapp & Macartney, Saint Paul, 1901-1906. Member Rodgers & Clapp, Muskogee, 1907-1912. Member Clapp & Macartney, Saint Paul, and successors since 1912 (senior.
Member Clapp, Briggs, Gilbert & Macartney, 1922-1940).
Member of Executive Committee Lumber Code. Member American and Washington Bar Associations, Phi Beta Kappa.
Clubs: Minnesota (Saint Paul).
Married Lucy Sargent Sanborn, June 6, 1902. Married second, Rosina Kraft, June 17, 1922. Children: Dorothy, Augustus Wilson.