Theodore Clapp

Background

Clapp was born in Easthampton, Massachusetts, March 29,1792.

Education

He graduated from Yale College in 1814.

Career

He was for one year, 1818-1819, a student in Andover Theological Seminary. Clapp possessed great power as a pulpit orator, and by his devotion to the sick on repeated occasions when the city was visited by epidemics, endeared himself to all classes of the population. In 1847, he travelled in Europe, and in 1857, his health failing, and his church having been burned, he resigned his pastorate.

He published in 1858, a volume of Autobiographical Sketches and Recollections of a 35 years" residence in New Orleans.

The last nine years of his life were spent, chiefly in retirement, in Louisville, Kentucky. He died there on April 17, 1866, aged 74 years.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.

Connections

Friend:

Judah Touro