Benjamin Lynn Clapp

August 19, 1814 (age 45)

West Huntsville, Alabama

He was baptized at some point before February 26, 1836, when Wilford Woodruff ordained him a priest. He served with Woodruff as a missionary in Kentucky, where Woodruff recorded the following experience: Clapp was set apart as one of the Seven Presidents of the Seventy on December 2, 1845. He replaced Daniel South. Miles, who had died. After moving west, he settled in Ephraim, Utah Territory where he conflicted with Bishop Warren South. Snow. He was subsequently dropped from the Presidency and excommunicated for apostasy on April 7, 1859. Jacob Gates took his place in the church hierarchy.

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Clapp was born in West Huntsville, Alabama and married Mary Schultz in 1832.

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He was baptized at some point before February 26, 1836, when Wilford Woodruff ordained him a priest. He served with Woodruff as a missionary in Kentucky, where Woodruff recorded the following experience:

Clapp was set apart as one of the Seven Presidents of the Seventy on December 2, 1845. He replaced Daniel South. Miles, who had died.

After moving west, he settled in Ephraim, Utah Territory where he conflicted with Bishop Warren South. Snow.

He was subsequently dropped from the Presidency and excommunicated for apostasy on April 7, 1859. Jacob Gates took his place in the church hierarchy.

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