Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 61

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 978

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Anna Milnor, m. a Mr. Eastern, of New York, and had issue;

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James Milnor, b. 1842, d. unm., 1866;

Rev. Charles Edward Milnor, of Phila., b. June 24, 1847, prepared for College at Episcopal Academy, Phila., and entered Kenyon College, Ohio; prepared for the ministry at the Episcopal Divinity School, Phila., was ordained a deacon in 1874, and in the same year was ordained a priest by Rt. Rev. William Bacon Stevens, Bishop of Pa., at St. Andrew's Church, Phila .; m. June 22, 1880, Annie E. Hopper, of Phila .;

Eleanor Milnor, b. 1852, d. 1866.

Charles Edward Milnor, b. in New York City, Aug., 1822, d. May 1, 1877; was educated at "China Hall," Bristol, Bucks co., Pa., and at the Muh- lenberg School, and then entered the New York College; became a stock broker in New York City; m. at Grace Church, Newark, N. J., in 1848, Susan Ely, dan. of John Henry and Lydia Haines (Ely) Stephens, for- merly of Lyme, Conn., and had issue :

Eleanor Milnor, m. Sept. 4, 1873, Rear-Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich, and had issue, Eleanor Goodrich, m. June 1, 1901, Douglass Camp- bell, and Gladys Goodrich, unm .;

Susan Vincent Milnor, m. June 12, 1873, Elmslie M. Gillet, and had issue :

Alice, m. Henry Mott Branson ;

Bertha, m. Lieut. William Patterson, U. S. Coast Artillery ; Jane Haxall, m. Morris Ketchum;

Charlotte Milnor, m. Arthur Paul Adenauh;

Langdon, of New York, unm .;

Mildred.

Alice Milnor, unm., resides in New York City ;

Jeanette Stephens Milnor, unm., resides in New York City.

Anna Milnor, b. May 25, 1775, d. Nov. 18, 1778; Nancy Milnor, b. Aug. 7, 1779, d. Sept. 6, 1780;

George Washington Milnor, b. Feb. 15, 1781, d. Ang. 1, 1781 ;

Anna Milnor, b. Ang. 23, 1783, d. July 27, 1841 ; m. Dr. Joseph Klapp.

Issue of Dr. Joseph and Anna (Milnor ) Klapp:

WILLIAM HENRY KLAPP, M. D., b. Oct. 14, 1808; m. Rebecca Plumsted Devereux; of whom presently;

Henry Milnor Klapp, M. D., graduated from the Univ. of Pa., Dept. of Arts, and entered Jefferson Medical College, Phila., from which he received his degree of M. D. in 1859; for many years physician at Moyamensing Prison, later filling the same position at the State Penitentiary, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, at Phila. He was a writer of considerable merit on medical and other subjects, and travelled extensively in the Orient and South America; d. s. p .;

Anna Milnor Klapp, b. 1811; first wife of Dr. William Henry Milnor, above mentioned; d. s. p .;

Mary O. Klapp, b. 1813, d. 1861, m. Rev. Henry Whitesides, b. 1807, d. 1861 ; a brother of Sarah Whitesides, who m. Charles Jones Wistar, of Germantown;

JOSEPH KLAPP, M. D., b. Jan. 21, 1817, d. Feb. 26, 1885: m. Anna Pauline Van Lew; of whom presently:

Ellen Klapp, b. 1820, d. Ang. 26, 1855; m. Jan. 12, 1844. Rev. Thomas Franklin, D. D., of Phila .;

Margaret Milnor Klapp, b. 1823, d. Sept. 1863; m. in 1840, her cousin, Dr. William Henry Milnor, of New York, being his second wife;

Rebecca Milnor Klapp, b. 1825; m. Samuel Phillips Mitchell, of Richmond, Va., and had sste.

WILLIAM HENRY KLAPP, M. D., eldest son of Dr. Joseph Klapp, of Philadel- phia, by his wife, Anna Milnor, born in Philadelphia, October 14, 1808, was named for his grandfathers, William Milnor and Henry Klapp, of Renssalaer-Wyck, New York. He was educated at private schools in Philadelphia and entered the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Arts, from which he graduated with

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the degree of Bachelor of Arts, July 26, 1827, and delivered the classical oration at the public commencement of that year. He was a member of the Philomathean Society at the University. Upon leaving the Department of Arts he entered the Medical Department of the University, and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine on March 24, 1830, and entering upon the practice of his profession in the then District of Southwark, Philadelphia, soon built up a large practice. In 1832 he was appointed one of the assistant physicians to the hospital opened by the Board of Health in Catharine street, for the reception of Cholera patients, during the prevalence of the epidemic at that time. He received from the University the degree of Master of Arts in due course. Upon the opening of the new prison for the county of Philadelphia in 1838, Dr. Klapp was elected its physician, which office he filled for fourteen years, his resignation bearing date February 9, 1852. He was also one of the board of managers of the Episcopal Hospital. In 1849 the dreaded Cholera made its appearance amongst the inmates of the county prison, but so judicious were the means adopted by Dr. Klapp, that very few deaths occurred. In August, 1839, Dr. Klapp was elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and was also chosen by the Philadelphia County Medical Society to represent it at the American Medical Association which met in Boston in 1849, and again represented the Philadelphia Society in the meeting at the city of Charleston, South Carolina, in 1851, and at the meeting in Philadel- phia in 1855. Dr. Klapp had an extremely sensitive organization, and was consci- entious to a fault, attending to his extensive practice day and night, year in and year out ; he refused to take any rest until the necessity was forced upon him, and the propriety of restricting the circle of his practice within much narrower limits. On July 5, 1855, when in his forty-seventh year he had an alarming ill- ness, but he so far recovered as to again begin his office practice. A second attack occurred, however, in about a year, and he died September 28, 1856, and is buried in St. Peter's Churchyard, Philadelphia.

Dr. William Henry Klapp was married at Philadelphia, January 9, 1833, by his uncle, the Rev. James Milnor, D. D., to Rebecca Plumsted, daughter of John Devereux, of Philadelphia, by his wife, Mary, daughter of Benjamin Hutton, of Southwark, by his wife, Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Plumsted, Esq., of Phil- adelphia, and "Mount Clement," New Jersey, by his wife, Mary Coates, and there- fore a descendant of Clement, the eminent Colonial merchant, and statesman of Philadelphia. Rebecca Plumsted (Devereux) Klapp was born in Philadelphia October 16, 1808, died November 7, 1892, and buried in St. Peter's Churchyard.

Issue of Dr. William Henry and Rebecca P. (Devereux) Klapp:

Devereux Klapp, b. Feb. 1, 1834, d. unm., Sept. 7, 1874, at Rome, Italy, and was bur. in the Protestant Cemetery in that city. He was graduated from Burlington College in 1852, and received his degree of Master of Arts from the same college in 1855; and was a member of the Alpha Chapter of the Delta Psi fraternity;

Anna Klapp, b. April 4, 1836; m. at St. Peter's Church, Phila., by Rev. George Leeds, May 1, 1861, Langdon Williams, of Boston, Mass. (son of Nathaniel Langdon Will- iams, by his wife, Eleanor, dau. of James and Sarah (Crowninshield) Devereux), b. June 24, 1829, A. B. and LL. B., Harv. Univ .; d. in Rome, Italy, May 9, 1872, and was bur. in the Protestant Cemetery there; they had issne:

Langdon Williams, b. March 28, 1862, in Phila .; graduated Johns Hopkins Univ., A. B., 1886; and has been a master at the Episcopal Academy, Phila., for some years; m. at First Unitarian Church, Jamaica Plains, Boston, Mass., Dec. 28, 1896, Marian. dau. of Richard and Mary Rebecca Perkins Adams (Allen) Robins;

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William Klapp Williams, b. Sept. 1, 1863, in Phila., d. at Montecito, Cal., June 4. 1897, and bur. in Roxbury Cemetery, Boston, Mass. He was a graduate of Johns Hopkins Univ., A. B., 1886, and Ph. D., 1889;

John Devereux Williams, b. April 18, 1872, d. at Rome, Italy, May 31, 1872, bur. at Protestant Cemetery there.

Harry Milnor Klapp, b. Oct. 3, 1837, d. March 2, 1839, bur. in Trinity Church, Phila .; George Gilson Klapp, b. in Phila., Nov. I, 1839; educated at Episcopal Academy, Phila., and entered the Univ. of Pa., 1854, but left at close of sophomore year; member of Delta Psi fraternity; m. in Wilmington, Del., Oct. 2, 1866, by Rev. Leighton Coleman, to Mary Eloise, dau. of Henry B. and Mary Elizabeth Shaw, of Natchez, Miss., and had issue :

Walter Devereux Klapp, b. Aug. 11, 1867; m. at Natchez, Miss., Jan. 1, 1891, Katharine, dau. of Col. Eugene and Stella Hunter, of Clinton, Miss., and had issue :

Mary Devereux Klapp, b. Oct. 15, 1891; Ronald Devereux Klapp, b. March 23, 1895;

Edgar Alan Klapp, b. Aug. 19, 1897.

Edith Lattimore Klapp, b. Oct. 14, 1868;

Herbert Langdon Klapp, b. Aug. 14, 1870;

George Gilson Klapp, b. Sept. 11, 1873, d. inf .;

George Gilson Klapp, b. May 25, 1876, d. inf .;

Mary Eloise Klapp, b. July 1, 1878. d. inf.

Laura Etchingham Klapp, b. in Phila., March 10, 1842;

Joseph Klapp, b. in Phila., Dec. 28, 1843, d. March 26, 1845, bur. in Trinity Church, Phila., Frederick Klapp, b. Phila., Oct. 26, 1846; m. at St. Luke's Church, Liverpool, England, March 6, 1875, by Rev. John R. Eyre, Edith, dau. of Henry Leslie, Barrister of Lon- don, England, and had issue :

Edith Devereux Klapp, b. Feb. 10, 1876;

Paul Shirley Klapp, b. April 1, 1879; m. in Church of Immaculate Conception, Minneapolis, by Rev. Father O'Callahan, Feb. 27, 1906, Suzanne Urban, dau. of Cornelius and Margaret McCauley, and had issue :

Shirley Margaret Klapp, b. March 9, 1907.

Anna Louise Klapp, b. June 29, 1881;

Freda Leslie Klapp, b. March 8, 1884;

Langdon Williams Klapp, b. May 10, 1887, d. at Jamestown, N. D., Feb. 18, 1894; Alexis Plumsted Klapp, b. Feb. 5, 1892.

WILLIAM HENRY KLAPP, b. Oct. 13, 1849, of whom presently;

Bertha Klapp, b. March 21, 1851.

WILLIAM HENRY KLAPP, M. D., youngest son of Dr. William Henry Klapp, by his wife, Rebecca Plumsted Devereux, was born in the city of Philadelphia, Octo- ber 13, 1849. He received his secondary education at the Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia, from which he graduated with high honor in 1866, and entered Harvard University in 1867, receiving his degree of B. A. from the latter institu- tion in 1871. He was immediately appointed one of the classical masters at the Episcopal Academy, and while performing his duties as such entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1876. He received the Alumni prize for the best original thesis, his subject being, "The Physiological Action of Strychnia." During his undergraduate period of study, he served as assistant to Dr. Francis Gurney Smith, Professor of Physiology at the University, and shortly after grad- uation was appointed Demonstrator of Physiology at the University. He never practiced medicine. During all this time he was deeply interested in his work at the Episcopal Academy, and wrote several articles on classical subjects, which were published in the current literature of the day. In the face of much opposi- tion, he was the first to introduce the Roman method of pronunciation of Latin in

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Philadelphia, and published a monograph on the subject. He was one of the charter members of the University Club, and has been treasurer of the Central Committee of Alumni of the University of Pennsylvania since its foundation by statute of the Board of Trustees. He was one of the charter members of the Contemporary Club of Philadelphia and took a deep interest in it, serving for many years on the Board of Governors, and was its president, 1900-01. Shortly after Dr. Klapp's graduation from Harvard, Asa I. Fish, Esq., formed a small club of young men to meet every two weeks during the winter months to read Horace and other Latin authors ; and on the death of Mr. Fish, in 1879, Dr. Klapp was elected Dean of this Horace Club. Contrary to the usual short life of such associations, the Horace Club still lives, and holds its meetings every winter ; within a limited circle, it has been a marked literary centre in Philadelphia.

Dr. Klapp has travelled extensively in Europe, visiting it to study its antiquities and art. He is a member of the American Philological Association; the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania ; and the Pennsylvania Society of the Archaelogical Institute of America. He is the fifty-seventh member of the Society of Colonial Wars as sixth in descent from Clement Plumsted, and fifth in descent from William Plumsted. In 1886 he was one of the active graduates in the production of "The Acharnians" by the students of the University of Pennsylvania, in Phila- delphia, May 14 and 15, and in New York, November 19. In recognition of his services in this behalf the University presented him with a silver loving cup, the inscription upon which was written by Dr. Horace Howard Furness. At the public Commencement in June, 1886, he was given the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

Having entirely dropped his medical studies, Dr. Klapp devoted himself to literature and art, and to the interests of the Episcopal Academy, to which he was devotedly attached. On the resignation of his predecessor, in July, 1891, he was elected Head Master of the Academy and at once entered upon his duties, and commenced that expanded career as an educator to which his tastes and attain- ments seemed to call him. His selection for the place and his acceptance of it were not accidents, but the result of his previous masterful service as a classical instructor, his sound scholarship, and his evident success in influencing the young men of his classes. From the beginning of his work in this position, he set out with distinct ideals of the dignity and inherent nobility of a life given to education ; looking upon teaching as a profession, calling as it does for equal preparation and powers, with those of the other learned professions. He constantly used his place and influence to raise the standing, and increase the respect for the teacher in the community. A teacher in his eyes must be one who takes a broad serious view of his work, and means to give his life to it, as a profession ; he resolutely refused to regard the school as a temporary refuge for a young man of doubtful equipment until he saw something more to his liking. The members of his corps must be especially prepared and carefully selected men, and for this kind there should be a suitable and dignified recompense. The teaching profession has undoubtedly risen in the estimation of the community, and it is due to the work and influence of those, who like Dr. Klapp, have labored to that end and expressed decided opinions of its worth and dignity. Dr. William H. Klapp has taken a prominent part in various associations of schoolmasters, and in the societies having to do

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with the inter-relations of School and College, serving for several years upon the College Entrance Examination Board.

Under his administration the Episcopal Academy has entered upon a period of expansion and success that has trebled the number of students and greatly increased its repute as an educational institution. Its success and perpetuation, and the elevation of the dignity of the profession of teaching are his highest aims. to which he has devoted his talents, his scholarship and his life.

JOSEPH KLAPP, M. D., fifth child of Dr. Joseph Klapp, by his wife, Anna Milnor, was born in Philadelphia, January 21, 1817, and prepared for college at private schools of that city. In 1833 he entered the College Department of the University of Pennsylvania, but in 1834, during his sophomore year, left the college to attend the classical school at "China Hall," Bristol, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. While at the University he was elected to membership in the Zelosophic Society. In 1837 he matriculated as a student in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania and he received his medical diploma there, April 16, 1839. He established himself in practice in Philadelphia, and was the first of the medical profession to specialize, making a specialty of diseases of the digestive organs. On September 18, 1839, Dr. Klapp was elected a member of the Franklin Insti- tute of Philadelphia. He was a visiting physician to several of the hospitals of his native city at different periods.

In conjunction with Dr. Partridge, Dr. Klapp founded the "Howard Hospital and Infirmary for Incurables" in 1853, the plans being formulated by him, and until his death, February 26, 1885, was associated with this hospital as chief of its Medical Staff, occupying the chair of Diseases of the Digestive Organs. In 1863- 64, during the War of the Rebellion, Dr. Klapp was commissioned Assistant Sur- geon, United States Army, and detailed to the Military Hospital at Sixth and Master streets, where, with Dr. Robert M. Smith, he had charge of the second floor. Dr. Paul Beck Goddard was Surgeon-in-Chief, and among Dr. Klapp's colleagues were Doctors William Pancoast and Matthew Knorr.

Dr. Klapp was for many years one of the leaders of the vestry of St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church. He was for many years prominent and active in the Masonic fraternity in Philadelphia, having joined Lodge No. 51, in 1848. He was also a prominent figure in the Board of Directors of the Girard Fire and Marine Insurance Company, of Philadelphia, up to the time of his death. He was a member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, a Fellow of the College of Physicians, and a life member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

At a time when Dr. Joseph Pancoast contemplated retiring from the Chair of Surgery at the Jefferson Medical College, Dr. Joseph Klapp was urged to allow his name to be proposed as Dr. Pancoast's successor. While appreciating the honor Dr. Klapp joined other friends of Dr. Pancoast in persuading the latter to retain the chair. Dr. Klapp was a man of strong and pleasing personality and fine literary ability and tastes, combined with extreme sensitiveness and modesty. His happiest hours were those, when released from the pressure of professional duties, he could retire to his own drawing room and join his wife, family and friends, in social intercourse. His genial and pleasant manners made him the beloved physician of the southern portion of the city where he resided, and he left.

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among the old residents, many recollections of his kind and thoughtful interest in his fellowmen.

Dr. Joseph Klapp was married on January 12, 1844, by the Rev. J. H. Morrison, Rector of St. John's Church, Richmond, Virginia, at the Van Lew mansion, the residence of her mother, to Anna Pauline, born October 7, 1820, daughter of John and Eliza Louisa (Baker) Van Lew. Her father, John Van Lew, born in Jamaica, Long Island, March 4, 1790, was a son of J. Frederick Van Lew, by his wife Elizabeth Van Lew, a daughter of John Van Lew, born in Flushing, Long Island, 1763, died 1812, by his wife Martha, and a descendant of Frederick Van Lew, who with a brother, Jan Van Lew, or Van Lewen, as the name was orig- inally spelled, emigrated to America from Utrecht, Holland, about 1660, and at Jamaica, Long Island. John Van Lew, father of Mrs. Klapp, removed to Rich- mond, Virginia, and was an extensive merchant there, having in operation at one time five separate commercial establishments. He died in Richmond in 1843.

Eliza Louisa Baker, mother of Mrs. Klapp, born in Philadelphia, in 1798, died there, September 13, 1875, was a daughter of Hon. Hilary Baker, Mayor of Phila- delphia, member of the Constitutional Convention of 1789-90, Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia, and an officer of the First Artillery Regi- ment of Philadelphia, 1780, by his wife, Anna Maria or "Polly" Kreider ; grand- daughter of Johan Hilarius Baker or Becker, born in Bonnheim, Duchy of Hesse- Darmstadt, February 25, 1705, who with his wife, Catharine Reinke, emigrated to America in 1754, and until the founding of the Germantown Academy in 1761, conducted a German School in Germantown. On the organization of the Union School, which later became the Germantown Academy, John Hilarius Baker was selected as instructor in German, and filled that position until the battle of ·Ger- mantown temporarily broke up the school, when he removed to Philadelphia, where he died June 23, 1783. He was a son of Johan Joachim Becker, born March 24, 1657, died December 2, 1737, by his wife, Susanna Heilfrich; and grandson of August Becker, born 1621, died February 25, 1678, by his wife, Barbara Nuss.

Issue of Dr. Joseph and Anna Pauline (Van Lew) Klapp:

Elizabeth Louise Klapp, b. Nov. 26, 1844; m. at St. Andrew's Church, Phila., Nov. 3, 1875, by the Rev. William Paddock, to Dr. Benjamin Franklin Nicholls, of Spartans- burg, S. C., b. Dec. 3, 1847; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Phila., in 1875; was appointed Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at Jefferson College, and filled that position until forced to resign by ill health; was one of the visiting surgeons of the Pennsylvania Hospital; corresponding secretary of Philadelphia County Medical Society, and succeeded his father-in-law, Dr. Joseph Klapp, at the latter's death, in the Chair of Diseases of the Digestive Organs at the Howard Hospital and Infirmary for Incurables; a member of the Obstetrical Society of Phila .; the Phila. Chapter of the Alumni of Jefferson Medical College. He d. Feb. 15, 1895, and is bur. in the old Klapp family vault in the graveyard of Trinity Church, Phila .; they had issue:

Joseph Klapp Nicholls, b. Dec. 25, 1876; matriculated at Law Dept. of the Univ. of Pa., 1901 ; a member of the Law Academy of Phila., the General Alumni of the Univ. of Pa., the Alumni of the Central High School of Phila., the Penna. Society Sons of the Revolution, the Historical Society of South Carolina, and of the American Academy of Political and Social Science;

Andrew Barry Crook Nicholls;

Catharine Louise Nicholls, and others who d. inf.

Anna Milnor Klapp, b. Nov. 19, 1846, d. Feb., 1888; m. at St. Andrew's Church, Phila., Oct. 12, 1869, Theodore Truesdale Lines, of New York, formerly of Conn .; they had issue :

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Hilary Baker

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Harvey Klapp Lines, b. April 17, 1873; educated at private schools in Phila .; served an enlistment in the Seventh Regiment of New York; member of New York Athletic Club; of New York Society Sons of the Revolution; Military Society of the War of 1812, and Society of Colonial Wars; is a prominent business man of Flushing, L. I., and a director of banking institutions there; m. 1899, Joanna Jones, of Flushing, and had issue :

Louisa Kartwright Lines;

Anna Klapp Lines;

Eleanor Lines.

Clarence Mansfield Lines, b. 1876, d. 1905;

Ernest Van Renssalaer Lines, b. 1883.

Ellen Franklin Klapp, m. (first) May 30, 1877, Rev. Mortimer A. Hyde; (second) Jan., 1887, Rev. Charles Alfred Ricksecker; by her first marriage had issue :

Ann Mortimer Hyde, b. July 6, 1882; m. 1900, Langley Ingraham, and has issue, Joseph Holt Ingraham.

By the second marriage :

Charles Alfred Ricksecker, 2d., b. Sept., 1888.

Joseph Klapp, M. D., 3d., b. Phila., Oct., 1850; received his education at private schools, and after engaging in business for several years, entered Jefferson Medical College, and received his medical degree there in 1889, entered upon the practice of medicine in Phila., where he still resides; was for several years connected with the out-patient department of the Jefferson College Hospital; m. Anna Caroline, dau. of Rev. Joseph Ingraham, rector of Christ Church, Holly Springs, Miss., by his wife, Mary Brooks; John Van Lew Klapp, b. in Phila., July 25, 1852; after finishing his education in Phila., engaged in the manufacturing business in Richmond, Va., from which he retired in 1895, and returned to Phila., where he m. at St. Andrew's Church, June 5, 1896, Ger- trude Klapp, dau. of Howard and Gertrude ( Klapp) Hinchman;

Margaret Milnor Klapp, d. inf .;

Harvey Klapp, d. inf .;

Mary Pauline Klapp, unm .; occupied the family residence on Spruce street for several years, but now resides in Germantown, where she is a member of the Manheim Ladies' Club, and Civic Club, of Germantown ;

Gertrude Harkins Klapp, m. June 12, 1890, Jesse Williams, 3d., of Phila., son of Jesse Williams, 2d., by his wife, Frances C., dau. of Dr. Samuel Stokes, of Stroudsburg, Monroe co., Pa., and fifth in descent from Thomas Stokes, who came from England in the ship "Kent" in 1677, and settled in Burlington co., N. J. Jesse Williams, 2d., a merchant of Phila. (b. 1804, d. 1874), was fifth in descent from George Williams, a Welsh Friend, who settled in Prince George co., Md. Jesse Williams, 3d., and Ger- trude H. Klapp had issue :

Jesse William, 4th., d. inf .:

Gertrude Gladys Klapp Williams, b. Dec. 31, 1897;

Hilary Baker Williams, b. Dec., 1904.

WILBUR PADDOCK KLAPP, M. D., of whom presently.

WILBUR PADDOCK KLAPP, M. D., youngest son of Dr. Joseph and Anna (Van Lew) Klapp, born in Philadelphia, January 8, 1864, received his elementary edu- cation in private schools ; entered the Scientific Department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a member of the Philomathean Society. On his graduation he entered the Medical Department of the University and received his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1888. He was resident physician of the Epis- copal Hospital and later visiting physician and chief of the out-patient depart- ment of that institution, in connection with his large private practice. He is a member of the County, State and American Medical associations ; was one of the founders and first secretary of the Agnew Surgical Society; member of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia, and of the General and Medical Alumni of the University of Pennsylvania ; of the Alpha Mu Psi Omega (medical ) frater- nity ; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; the Academy of Political and Social Science ; and of the Penn and Southern clubs and a number of other social and charitable associations.

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 61

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed Publication date: 1911 Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 978

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 978