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born March 15, 1800, in Buffulo, N.Y. She has been engaged in newspaper work for bonie years; and was correspondent of the •San Francisco (.'all to Hawaii during the last revolution. She has prepared a book of liistory of Philippine people and a book on hygiene which are used in the schools of the archipelago. In 1902-03 she was editor of the Household Magazine of New York city. She is the author of Upland Pastures; The .Story of the Philippines; and other works. Knapp, Arthur May, clergyman, author, was bf)rn in 1841 in Massachusetts. Since 1891 he has been pastor at Fall River. Mass. He is the author of Feudal and Modern •lapan.

Knapp, Anthony

L.,

lawyer, state sena-

congressman, was born June 14. 1828, Middletown, N.Y. In 1859-61 he was in the state senate of Illinois. In 1801-6;j he was a representative from Illinois to the tor,

in

thirty-seventh and thirty eightJi congresses. Knapp, Charles, merchant, banker, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1797 in Colchester, N.Y. He was a member of the New York state legislature in 1841. He organized the Deposit bank in 1854, which in 1804 became a national bank, of which he was president. In 1809-71 he was a representative from New York to the forty-first congress. He died in Deposit, N.Y. Knapp, Charles Junius, banker, state legislator,

congressman,

was

born

June

30,

1845. in Pepacton, N.Y. He was educated at Hamiltorj college. For many years he was president of the Detroit national bank «)f Deposit, N.Y. Ho has been president of the board of etlucation; was elected supervisor in 1885 and 1880; and served as member of the New York state legislature in 1880 and 1888. In 1887-89 he was a representative from New York to the fifty- first congress as a republican. In 1890 he organi/xMl the Binghamton trust company, became its first president, and still holds that position.

Knapp, Charles Luman, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born July 4, 1847, Harris!>urg. N.Y. in Since 1873 he has practiced law in Ix)wville, N.Y. In 1885-87 lie was a memU'r of the New York state senate. In 1889-93 he was consul-general to

Montreal, Canada. In 1901-11 he was a representative from New York to the fiftyseventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth 1111(1 sixty-first c<»ngresH««s as a republican. Knapp, Chauncey L., journalist, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1809, in Berlin, Vt. He learned the printing trade and was engaged in newspaper work. In 1830-40 he was secretary of state of Vermont. In 185559 he was a n-presenlative from MasMicliusetts to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth enngress«'s as a republican. He resuuu'd ricwspaper work in Lowell, Mass.; and was pujployed on the Lowell News. He died in Lowell. Mass.

Knapp,

Charles

Welburne,

journalist,

publisher, was l)orn Jan. 23, 1848, in St. He received his education at Louis, Mo. the St. Louis university; and graduated in 1805 with the de-

gree of A.B. and n-ceived from the same institution the degree In 1805 07 of A.M.

he attended Columbia college of

New

Y<»rk,

and the university of Kentucky, from which institution he received the degree «»f LL.B. He is a suoin 1807. «'essful journalist, and the president and general manager of the St. Louis Republic. During 1895 98 he was president of the American newspaper publishers' association; a mendwr of the Iniard of directors and in 1!)00 was president of the Associated Presn .luring 1891-98; and in 1890-99 a memlM-r (if the Iwiard of directors of the St. lx>uis piililic

library.

Knapp, Francis, author, port, was born in Kiigland. He came to the I niled ill States to take poss«»ssion of some lands that IIIhad inherited from his grandfather in Watertown. .Mass. He was a musical eoinposer. and the author of A Poetical Kpistle (o Mr. B.. reprinted in J. Nieluds's Seleet Collection of IVkmiis; and of a Poetical Address to Mr. Alexander Pope, on his Wind1<>72

sor Forest.

He

died after 1715.

Knapp, Herman, physician, founder, was March 17, 1832, in (Jermany. Since 1808 he has practiced medicine in New York cily; and is now a professor of Columbia iMirn

university.

In

1869 he founded the New-

York ophthalmic and aural

institute.

He

is

the author of Inter-Ocular Tumors. Knapp, Isaac, journalist, abolitionist, was born Jan. 11, 1804, in Newburyport, Mass. In 1825 he bought the Northern Chronicle; and in 1840 beoame part owner of the Liberator. He was one of the founders of lb«' New England Anti-Slaverj' society. He died Sept. 14. 178.S. in Boston,* Mass.

Knapp, Jacob, clergyman,

revivalist,

was

Dec. 7, 1799, in Otsego county, N.Y'. his revival work he visited New York. New Kngland, and the western states, in-

born In

cluding California, preached about sixteen thousand sermons, led two hundred young men to become clergymen, and baptized four thousand persons. lie died March 2, 1874, Ro.kfnrd, 111. ill

Knapp, Jacob Herman, physician, surgeon, lecturer, was Ixirn March 17, 1832, in Prussia. He founde<l the New York ophthalmic and aural institute in 1809; and has since been its surgeon. Knapp, John, soldier, journalist, was born June 20, 1810. in New York City. In 1834 he was interested in a wholesale grocery liusiness.

In 1854 he purchased

in the Mis.souri

an interest

Republican, the oldest news-

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