- Title
- No. 3. - Residence in New York, and passage from thence to Albany
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- Creator
- David Clapp (1806-1893)
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- Description
- Clapp stayed at the Franklin Hotel and visited Peale's museum, the Castle Garden at the Battery, many churches, the Market, and what he described as the large Methodist printing establishment. At the end of the diary, he boarded the steamer North America to Albany./nClapp was well-known as a printer in Boston, Massachusetts. Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1806, he was educated locally and began working as a tanner at the age of 13. In 1822, he became an apprentice at John Cotton's printing shop in Boston. Although he finished his apprenticeship in 1827, he continued working for Cotton until 1831 when he started his own business. Henry Hull was his partner for a brief period of time. Clapp was a member of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, the New-England Historic Genealogical Society, Saint Matthew's Church, and the Boston Old School Boys Association. He married Mary Elizabeth Tucker in 1835 and they had six children. He died on May 10, 1893./nThis is the second of four Clapp diaries in the collection.
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- Format
- ["manuscript"]
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- Subjects
- ["Diaries","Men--Diaries","New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel"]
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