(1980 memoirs)
[Florence Clapp] grew up well educated and graduated in music from Ripon College in piano. Her parents "kept her down," were very strict, and she was not allowed to have any beaux, any fun. So of course what was to happen did happen and she fell in love with the hired man, Herman Hillsburg.
December 7, 2012
December 6, 2012
Florence
(1980 memoirs)
The Clapps only daughter was a dark haired girl, Florence, a smaller, nicer replica of her mother. When I knew her, she had married twice, so I am writing hearsay, which no doubt is the truth after all.
The Clapps only daughter was a dark haired girl, Florence, a smaller, nicer replica of her mother. When I knew her, she had married twice, so I am writing hearsay, which no doubt is the truth after all.
December 5, 2012
Flowers
(1980 memoirs)
[Chores for the Clapps] might include getting flowers from the greenhouse to the church Saturdays. By providing flowers every Sunday, they always got their names in the weekly leaflet of the Congregational Church, tho of course it was splendid of them to do it; and tho it advertised, was also costly and I am sure often a lot of work. The kind of flower and what was ready blooming was often a topic of discussion at dinners.
[Chores for the Clapps] might include getting flowers from the greenhouse to the church Saturdays. By providing flowers every Sunday, they always got their names in the weekly leaflet of the Congregational Church, tho of course it was splendid of them to do it; and tho it advertised, was also costly and I am sure often a lot of work. The kind of flower and what was ready blooming was often a topic of discussion at dinners.
December 4, 2012
Chores
(1980 memoirs)
[Lucretia Clapp's college girl] Edna would get up early and get the wash on the line before leaving for college -- hurry hone at night to clean and cook supper, and studied after the dishes were done. I think there was a college boy too, who shoveled walks, fired the furnace, carried out ashes, mowed the lawn, and did what needed to be done.
[Lucretia Clapp's college girl] Edna would get up early and get the wash on the line before leaving for college -- hurry hone at night to clean and cook supper, and studied after the dishes were done. I think there was a college boy too, who shoveled walks, fired the furnace, carried out ashes, mowed the lawn, and did what needed to be done.
December 3, 2012
College girl
(1980 memoirs)
I will say this about her [Lucretia Clapp], she knew how to solve her problems - some of them anyway. She lived in a great big white house with greenhouse nearby and the gardens and orchards behind. [By 2010 these had become the grounds of the Ripon High School.] By keeping on a college girl to work for her room and board, she managed to get her work done without paying for it.
I will say this about her [Lucretia Clapp], she knew how to solve her problems - some of them anyway. She lived in a great big white house with greenhouse nearby and the gardens and orchards behind. [By 2010 these had become the grounds of the Ripon High School.] By keeping on a college girl to work for her room and board, she managed to get her work done without paying for it.
December 2, 2012
Business woman
(1980 memoirs)
Henry's sister Frances and family didn't care for Lucretia because she was so bold and inquisitive about business matters which were better left to the men. Frankie told me about it when I lived with her and went to Ripon College. "When Father and my Brother Henry were talking about business, she went right behind Father's Chair and leaned over to read his papers!" she said, still with awe at the enormity of it.
Henry's sister Frances and family didn't care for Lucretia because she was so bold and inquisitive about business matters which were better left to the men. Frankie told me about it when I lived with her and went to Ripon College. "When Father and my Brother Henry were talking about business, she went right behind Father's Chair and leaned over to read his papers!" she said, still with awe at the enormity of it.
December 1, 2012
Lucretia Clapp
(1980 memoirs)
Lucretia Clapp was a big horsey person with an English accent, large boned, well filled out, long black naturally curly hair. The hair is what I have never forgotten because if you stretch the truth a little you could say she never washed it. She parted it in the middle, combed it neatly down on each side where it waved, and wound it into a big bun on top of her head with a comb to hold her back hair up.
Lucretia Clapp was a big horsey person with an English accent, large boned, well filled out, long black naturally curly hair. The hair is what I have never forgotten because if you stretch the truth a little you could say she never washed it. She parted it in the middle, combed it neatly down on each side where it waved, and wound it into a big bun on top of her head with a comb to hold her back hair up.
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