When Arthur Clapp was born on 2 February 1895, in Pixley, Tulare, California, United States, his father, William Henry Clapp, was 27 and his mother, Charlotte Evelyn Kinman, was 19. He married Hazel Marrie Foote on 29 June 1924, in Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Laguna Beach, Orange, California, United States in 1930 and Laguna Beach Judicial Township, Orange, California, United States in 1940. He died on 16 March 1976, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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English (Devon and Somerset): either from Middle English clop(pe), clap(pe) ‘lump’, perhaps denoting a stocky person, or Middle English clap(pe) ‘loud noise; noisy, idle chatter’.
Americanized form of German Klapp .
In some cases also an Americanized form of Slovenian Klep: nickname from klep ‘sharpness of scythe or sickle’, also ‘sharpening with a hammer’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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