History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Counties, Indiana From the
Earliest Time to the Present; Together with Interesting Biographical
Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc.  Chicago, Goodspeed Bros., & Co.,
Publishers, 1884. Weston A. Goodspeed, Leroy C. Goodspeed, Charles L.
Goodspeed. Jefferson County.

WILLIAM H. TAPP, druggist and grocer, was born in Louisville, Ky., March
23, 1848, son of James P. and Eliza J. (Clark) Tapp, natives of Kentucky. 
The father died in Mitchell, Marion Twp., Lawrence Co., Indiana in 1881,
his wife having passed away the year previously; he was Captain of Company
D, Thirty-fourth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.  Subject's parents removed
to Mitchell when he was fifteen years of age, and there he learned the
trade of marble-cutter, afterward working in Louisville for some months,
when he returned to Mitchell, where he has since resided.  In December,
1870, he and father opened a drug store, and the father dying in 1881, the
business has been continued by himself, carrying a good stock and doing a
good business.  In 1881 he was appointed Notary Public, and in 1882 he was
elected Trustee of Marion Township.  He is Secretary of the Mitchell
Building, Loan and Savings Association, and has been for many years P. S.
of Mitchell Lodge, No. 242, I. O. O. F.; is Scribe of Lawrence Encampment,
and served as Secretary of Mitchell Agricultural Association.  He is a
Democrat, is leader of the Mitchell Silver band, being a fine musician.

Tapp Clark
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Louisville-Jefferson-KY Mitchell-Lawrence-IN

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