He continued, however, to preach in the same church edifice, which had in the meantime become the property of a wealthy Jewish philanthropist, Judah Touro, a personal friend of Clapp, and to a congregation composed in part of his former parishioners.
Clapp possessed great power as a pulpit orator, and by his devotion to the sick on repeated occasions when the city was visited by epidemics, endeared himself to all classes of the population.
[2][3] Clapp served on the board of trustees of the Medical College of Louisiana, which was to become The Tulane University School of Medicine.
[4] In 1847, he travelled in Europe, and in 1857, his health failing, and his church having been burned, he resigned his pastorate.
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