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other paper. He was secretary of the Massachu- setts state senate in 1851, and Republican repre- sentative from the eighth Massachusetts district in the 34th and 35th congresses, 1855-57, defeat- ing Benjamin F. Butler for the office in 1854. He was editor of the Lowell Daily Citizen, 1859- 82. He died in Lowell, Mass., May 31, 1898.

KNAPP, Lyman Enos, governor of Alaska, was born in Somerset, Vt., Nov. 5, 1887; son of Hiram and Elvira (Stearns) Knapp ; grand- son of Cyrus Knapp, who removed to Dover about the beginning of the nineteenth century ; and greaf^-grandson of Capt. Joseph Knapp, who commanded a companj- in Colonel Titcomb's reg- iment during the Revolution. His first ancestor in America emigrated from England in 1640 and settled in Brighton, and subsequently at Taunton, Mass. Lyman attended school at Manchester, Vt., and was graduated at Middlebury college in 1863. He enlisted as a private in 1862 ; was pro- moted captain in the 16th Vermont volunteers ; was subsequently transferred to the 17th Ver- mont volunteers, and rose to the rank of lieuten- ant-colonel. He was wounded at Gettysburg, at Spottsjdvania and at the capture of Petersburg. He was brevetted colonel for gallantry at Peters- burg, and at the close of the war he settled in Middlebury, Vt. He was married, Jan. 23, 1865, to Martha A. Severance, of Middlebury, Vt. He was editor and publisher of the Middlebury Reg- ister, 1865-78, and also contributed editorial arti- cles to the American Laic Register and the Chi- cago Inter-Ocean. While thus engaged he stud- ied law, was admitted to the bar in 1876, and practised in Middlebury. He was clerk of the Vermont house of represensatives, 1872-78, and judge of the probate and insolvency courts, 1879- 89. He was appointed governor of Alaska by President Harrison, April 12, 1889, and resided at Sitka. He was succeeded, Jan. 9, 1893, hy James Sheakley, and engaged in the practice of law in Seattle, Wash. He received the degree of LL.D. from AVhitman college in 1893, and became a member of the Institute of Civics and of various patriotic and learned societies.

KNAPP, Samuel Lorenzo, author, was born in Newburyport, Mass., Jan. 19, 1788. He was graduated from Dartmouth college, A.B., 1804, A.M., 1807, studied law with Theophilus Parsons in Boston, Mass., and engaged in practice in that city. He enlisted in the war of 1812, and commanded a regiment of militia on the coast defences. He was editor of the Boston Ga- zette in 1824, conducted the Boston Monthly Magazine, and established the National Repuhli- ean in 1826. The latter magazine failed in 1828, and Mr. Knapp removed to New York city, where he continued in the practice of his profession. The University of Paris conferred upon him the

honorary degree of LL.D. He is the author of : Travels in Xorth America by AH Bey (1818); Bio- graphical Sketches of Eminent Lawyers, States- men and Men of Letters (1821); Memoirs of Gen- eral Lafayette {I82i); The Genius of Fj-eemasonry (1828) ; Discourse on the Life and Character of De Witt Clinton (1828); Lectures on American Liter- ature (1829): Sketches of Public Characters by Ig- natius Loyola Robertson, LL.D. (1830); American Biography {18Z^)\ Life of Thomas Eady {\8Uy. Ad- vice in the Pursuit of Literature (1835); Memoir of the Life of Daniel Webster (1835); Life of Aaron Burr (1835); Life of Andreic Jackson (1835); TJie Bachelor and Other Tales (1836); Female Biog- raphy {18iS). He also edited: Hinton's ii'i'sfo?'^/ of the United States (1884); Tlie Librai"y of American History (1837). He died in Hopkin- ton, Mass., July 8, 1838.

KNAPP, Seaman Asahel, agriculturist, was born in Essex county, N.Y., Dec. 16, 1833 ; son of Bradford and Rhoba (Seaman) Knapp ; grandson of Obadiah and Betsey (Dean) Knapp, and a de- scendant of Nicholas Knapp, who came to Amer- ica in 1630. He was graduated from Union col- lege, N.Y., in 1856, and in August of the same year was married to Maria E. Hotchkins, of Hampton, N.Y. He taught Greek and mathe- matics at Fort Edward collegiate institute in 1857-58, and became associated with Dr. Joseph E. King in the management of that institution in 1860. He was associate manager of Ripley Female college, in Vermont, 1863-69, and presi- dent of the Iowa State College for the Blind. 1869-75. He then engaged in farming and stock- raising in Iowa, and was first president of the Iowa Stock Breeders' association, 1871. He was professor of agriculture at the State Agricultural college, Ames, Iowa, 1879-83, and its president in 1883. He visited China, Japan and the Philip- pines, 1898-99, in the interest of the U.S. agricul- tural department to report on the resources of the islands, and while there he gathered seeds of staple agricultural i3roducts for experimenting in the southern states, having made his home at Lake Charles, La. In 1899 he travelled exten- sively in trojjical Mexico. In 1900 he was com- missioned by the U.S. department of agriculture to visit Porto Rico and report on the state of agriculture with a view to establishing experi- ment stations. He received the degree of LL.D. from Upper Iowa university in 1881.

KNEELAND, Abner, editor, was born in Gardner, Mass., April 6, 1774. He was ordained a Baptist minister, but soon after changed his faith to the Universalist. He was editor of the Vniversalist Magazine and the Christian Messen- ger in Philadelphia, Pa., 1821-23 ; of the Olive Branch and Christian Enquirer in New York city, 1828-32, and established The Investigator,