When Arthur Calloway Clapp was born on 26 January 1883, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Pleasant Calloway Clapp, was 28 and his mother, Mary Evaline Tunnell, was 21. He married Ella Mary Wood on 17 October 1906, in Davidson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in United States in 1949 and Athens, Attica, Greece in 1958. He died on 24 November 1958, in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Athens, Greece hosts Summer Olympic Games.
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
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’.
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