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William Warland Clapp was born on April 04, 1826 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. His father, descended from Thomas Clapp who arrived in New England in 1633, was William Warland Clapp, and his mother Hannah W. Lane.
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William Warland Clapp was born on April 04, 1826 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. His father, descended from Thomas Clapp who arrived in New England in 1633, was William Warland Clapp, and his mother Hannah W. Lane.
Clapp was educated partly in France.
Clapp spent much of his youth about the office of one of his father’s papers, the Saturday Evening Gazette. At the age of twenty- one he became in charge of Saturday Evening Gazette. He owned and operated this publication from 1847 to 1865, when he abandoned it for the editorship of the Boston Journal, a position which he occupied till within a few months of his death. He was most successful as a journalist whether judged as executive or editor. A staunch Republican in his affiliations, he was so just in what he wrote for his paper that he was listened to with interest by people of all parties; throughout New England and especially in the districts north of Boston it may be said that the Journal was for many years the standard newspaper.
Aside from his profession, his most notable interest was in the theatre. In 1853, collecting some articles of his that had appeared in the Gazette, he published A Record of the Boston Stage, a solemn but full and dependable history. The Puritans, he said, held the theatre to be “the abode of a species of devil, who, if allowed once to exist, would speedily make converts, ” but he himself was of no such opinion. He implied, indeed, that “a first class theatre in Boston, properly built and conducted, would prove a boon to the public and a fortune to the manager. ”
Around 1857, he wrote or adapted several plays, La Fiaminna (from the French); John Gilbert and his Daughter, A Dramatic Trifle; and My Husband’s Mirror, A Domestic Comedietta. His literary methods were not subtle, and the moral at the end of one of his compositions, at least, was driven in with drastic obviousness, but the effect in general was light and pleasing. In 1880, he printed privately a short monograph on Joseph Dennie. He participated in philanthropic and scholarly organizations, and in politics to such a degree that he became an officer in the militia, an alderman of Boston, and a state senator.
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Clapp was married in 1850 to Caroline Dennie, by whom he had three children.
