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- 1919 Indianapolis Directory
Claypool John W, 824 Hume-Mansur bldg.
Ref: Indianapolis Star Newspaper:
1912 Jan 7 - Postal Telegraph Building Must Give Way to New Merchants Bank Structure, erected about year 1850, Old Meridian Washington St. Block House Recruiting Office During War. Within a few weeks another one of the familiar old landmarks in the downtown business section will be wiped out of existence, the Blackford or Postal Telegraph building was used as recruiting station. It is related that during the Civil War a room on the 2nd floor of the Blackford building was used as a recruiting office. Attorney John Claypool, who has just removed from the building after an occupancy of 21 years, says that when he first entered the building the walls are covered with names of soldiers. investigation disclosed that the roster of several companies had been written upon the wall.
1919 Dec 24, Realtor buys Moore Farm, Lauke W Duffey, Indianapolis real estate dealer, ester complex a deal whereby he acquired the Wm. Moor farm of 160 a. Lawrence Twp., Marion co., 8 m. NE. of this city. Mr Duffy will combine this tract & his adjoining from of 200 a. with a 230 a. tract owned by John W clay pool. The entire section will be opened as a building addition in the spring. It is the intention of Mr. Duffy & Mr. Claypool to dispose of small lots from 5 to 10 a. to homebuilders & to provide a suburban building addition. A long chain of hills runs through the section is a a new gravel road which is part of the Dandy Trail. The trail is also a part of the Fall Creek road, one of the best travel highways in the county. The scenery, which is of the rugged picturesque type is heavily wooded & the bluffs are all fringed with virgin trees. Registered yesterday as The Mountain chair Hills District Farms. Plans have been completed of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board banquet to be held in the Riley room of the Claypool Hotel, Tues, evening, Dec. 10.
Obituary
1924 Dec 8 - John W Claypool. Many men go throughout life attending quietly & faithfully to business doing useful work in the community & known favorably to a large number of citizens, yet seldom coming before the public in a conspicuous way.
John W Claypool was one of these men belong to the well-known clay pool family of Indiana, of whom his father, the late Solomon Claypool, was a distinguished member, he inherited many of their sturdy traits, together with an inclination to the law.
He was engaged in the practice of this profession in Indianapolis many years & stood high in the estimation of his legal brethren's & those whom he professionally served as able, dependable & trustworthy both as citizen & lawyer. He became best known to the public, perhaps as attorney for Geo. Rhodius, who will remembered by older citizens as the owner of valuable property on Monument circle, against which various false claims were made. Mr. Calypool's wise handling of the estate met with much approval at the time & he mad credited with the suggestion that led to Rhodius' gift in the city of $250,000 & several bequests to charity. Mr. Claypool was a good citizen - a term that covers many virtues. - - -
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1858 - 1924 (66 years)