Norton clapp

He was named a Life Trustee in Among the honors he received was the humanitarian award in from the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Booth Gardner; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He met his first wife, Mary Cordelia Davis, while in law school. She was the daughter of the minister at the church Clapp attended. They married in and eventually had four sons.

Clapp's business acumen developed at an early age. He ventured into the stock market for the first time in , while still a student at the University of Chicago. I used to go to Winona on the Milwaukee Railroad in big, comfortable, orange cars. I liked them. So I decided to buy some Milwaukee stock. When Clapp graduated, in June , he decided it would not be safe to carry the certificates -- which were now quite valuable -- back home to Pasadena with him.

Shortly before leaving Chicago, he ordered his broker to sell. It was the onset of the Great Depression -- an inauspicious time to be beginning a career. Clapp joined the firm of Hayden, Langhorne, and Metzger in Tacoma, but was laid off a year and a half later. He then opened his own law office, but found few clients.

He dabbled with a few business ventures, from a cemetery to a gold mine to an effort to market a new electric iron. Meanwhile, he and his wife, Mary, developed Lakewood Center in Tacoma, one of the first shopping centers west of the Mississippi River. He returned to Weyerhaeuser after the war. When his father died, in , Clapp replaced him as a director of Weyerhaeuser.

In , he became president of Weyerhaeuser. Weyerhaeuser was still primarily a Northwest company when Clapp became its president. Clapp helped initiate an aggressive period of expansion into the South and Midwest, and then around the world. Gifts processed in this system are not tax deductible, but are predominately used to help meet the local financial requirements needed to receive national matching-grant funds.

Clapp, 89, died Saturday in this wealthy enclave on the east shore of Lake Washington. Clapp also was president of Boise Payette Lumber Co. A public memorial service was scheduled May 6 at St. Thomas, Diocese of Olympia. Uploaded by alavigne12 on February 22, Internet Archive's 25th Anniversary Logo. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass.

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