Aaron Bronson Clapp (July 1856 – January 13, 1914) was an American

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for the 1879

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. Born in

Ithaca, New York Ithaca () is a city in and the county seat of Tompkins County, New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York (state), New York, Ithaca is the largest community in the Ithaca metrop ...

, Clapp was the younger brother, John Clapp, one of the greatest catchers of his day. Clapp moved to

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, around the turn of the century, and was working as a foreman of a paint shop. He died in Sayre of cancer in 1914.

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