at Savage's station, five miles from Richmond, Va., in the spring of 1862.
He was twice Grand Master of the Masonic fraternity of the State of
New York. He m. (first) his cousin, Anna Milnor, dau. of his uncle and
preceptor. Dr. Joseph Klapp, by his wife, Anna Milnor (see forward) ;
and (second) in 1840, her sister, Margaret Milnor Klapp; by the latter
he had issue :
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 i, 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, dau. 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 I, 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.
.•\nna 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. Aug. i, 1781;
Anna Milnor, b. Aug. 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, ni. 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. .'\nna Pauline Van Lew; of
whom presently;
Ellen Klapp, b. 1820, d. Aug. 26, 1855; m. Jan. 12, 1844. Rev. Thomas Franklin, D. D..
of Phila.;
Margaret Milnor Klapp, b. 1823, d. Sept. 1S63; m. in 1840, her cousin. Dr. William Henry
Milnor, of New York, being his second wife;
Rebecca Milnor Klapp, b. 1S25; ni. Samuel Phillips Mitchell, of Richmond. Va., and had
issue.
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 185 1, 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 ofiEce 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) Kla(>p:
Devereux Klapp, b. Feb. i, 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 I, 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 issue:
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. i, 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. i, 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. II, 1873, d. inf.:
George Gilson Klapp, b. May 25, 1876, d. inf.;
Mary Eloise Klapp, b. July I, 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 i. 1879; m. in Church of Immaculate Conception,
Minneapolis, by Rev. Father O'Callahan, Feb. 27, igo6. 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 Kl.app, 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 1 87 1. 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 too^ 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 greath-
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 KL.^pp, M. D., fifth child of Dr. Joseph Klapp,by his wife, .\nna Milnor,
was born in Philadelphia, January 21, 181 7, 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 friend.s 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) Wan Lew. Her father, John Van Lew. born in
Jamaica, Long Island, March 4, 1790, was a son of J. Frederick \'an 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 \'an 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 (Fan Lezv) 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. ig, 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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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 WiUiams, 2d., a