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courage and bravery at the second battle of Cerro Gordo. He was a representative in the Pennsyl- vania legislature, 1848-50, and removed to Paw- nee, Kan., in 1855. He was married in 1849 to Sallie, daughter of Col. John Leutz. He was a delegate to the Topeka constitutional convention and the first to sign the state constitution; was secretarj- of state under Governor Robinson; was a member of the committee of safety in 1856, and brigadier-general in command of the state troops at Lawrence. On his return to Pennsylvania, in 1859, he was elected treasurer of Cax-bon county. In 1861 he entered the Federal army for three months' service, under General Patterson, and in 1862, at the time of Lee's first invasion of Penn- sylvania, was colonel of emergency troops at Chambersburg. After the war he engaged in business, and was one of the board of managers of the Laflin & Rand Powder company of New York. He was Democratic representative from the eleventh Pennsylvania district in the 46th and 47th congresses, 1879-83. He secured the passage of a bill pensioning the soldiers and the families of deceased soldiers of the Mexican war. He was a trustee of Lehigh university. He died at Mauch Chunk, Pa., May 1, 1895.

KLUTTZ, Theodore Franklin, representative, was born in Salisbury, N.C., Oct. 4, 1848; son of Caleb and Elizabeth (Moose) Kluttz; grandson of Leonard Kluttz and a descendant of Leon- hardt Kluttz, who came from the Palatinate, settling first in Pennsylvania, and removing about 1750 to Rowan county, N.C. He was edu- cated in the public schools, was admitted to the bar in 1881, and began practice at Salisbury. He was married in 1873 to Sallie, daughter of J. P. Caldwell, of Statesville, N.C. He was a Demo- cratic presidential elector in 1880 and 1896; pre- siding justice of the inferior court in 1884; chair- man of the North Carolina delegation to the Chicago national convention in 1896, where he seconded the nomination of William J. Bryan for President; and was elected a Democratic repre- sentative from the seventh North Carolina dis- trict in the 56th congress in 1898, receiving the largest majority given up to that time to a rep- resentative from North Carolina. He was re- elected to congress, serving from 1899 to 1905. He was elected president of the Davis & Wiley (state) bank, vice-president of the Salisbury Cot- ton mills and of the Yadkin Railroad company, and also became identified with other banking and industrial interests.

KNAPP, Arthur flason, librarian, was born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., Aug. 8, 1839; son of Hiram and Soplironia (Brown) Knapp; grandson of James and Lois (Stearns) Knajip and of Edward Bugbee and Lucy (Risley) Brown, and a de- scendant of William Knapp, who came to this

country from England in 1630 and settled in Watertown, Mass. His parents removed to Boston, Mass., during his boyhood, and he was prepared for college at Boston Latin school, where he was graduated first in his class in 1859. He was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1863, A.M., 1866; was a teacher of classics and mathematics in Phillips Andover academy and the Brookline high school, respectively, 1863-75, and entered the service of the Boston Public library, Jan. 23, 1875, as curator of periodicals and pamphlets, becoming custodian of Bates Hall, the main ref- erence department of the library, in 1878, which position he held until Iiis death. He catalogued the Barton library of Slialc^peariana, and was an authority on early Elizabethan literature and on genealogy and local history. He was married, July 2, 1873, to Abbie, daughter of James Bart- lett, of Brookline, Mass., who died, Jan. 26, 1876. Mr. Knapp died in Boston, Mass., Dec. 27, 1898.

KNAPP, Charles Welbourne, journalist, was born at St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 23, 1848; .son of Col. John and Virginia (Wright) Knapp and grand- son of Edward Knapp. He was graduated from St. Louis university, A.B., 1865, A.M., 1867, and from the University of Kentucky, LL.B., 1867. He immediately entered the office of the Missouri Republican, of which his father was one of the principal proprietors, and served in the various departments, editorial and business, gaining a thorough practical knowledge of journalism and of the business of publishing. He had charge of the Washington bureau for a number of years. He was elected president of the corporation, Publishers: George Knapp & Company, publish- ers of the St. Louis Republic, in 1887, and in ad- dition to his duties as president and general man- ager, was made editor-in-chief. He was elected a director of the American Newspaper Publishers' association, and served as its president, 1895-99. He was elected a director of the Associated Press in 1892. and its president in 1900.

KNAPP, Chauncey Langdon, representative, was born in Berlin, Vt., Feb. 26,1809; son of Abel and Miriam (Hawkes) Knapp. He received a common school education and served an ap- prenticeship in a printing office in Montpelier, Vt. He was elected reporter for the Vermont legislature in 1833, and was co-proprietor and editor of the State Journal and Middlebury Free Pi'ess for a number of years, and is credited with having secured the nomination of William Henry Harrison for the Presidency in 1836, and of secur- ing for liim the electoral votes of Vermont four years before he was elected. He was secretary of the state of Vermont, 1836-40. and in 1844, at the solicitation of John G. Whittier, his friend, he removed to Lowell, Mass., where he edited tl)e Lowell News, the Middlesex Standard and one