Weld County, History of Colorado, BIOS: KNAPP, Mason E. (published 1918)
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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II


p. 394-395



MASON E. KNAPP.

	Mason E. Knapp is most prominently and closely associated with 
the agricultural interests of Colorado as special writer and 
agricultural editor of the Greeley Tribune-Republican and as county 
agricultural agent of Weld county, into both of which connections he 
entered in 1917. He was born June 27, 1869, on a farm near Wilmington, 
in Will county, Illinois, his parents being O. S. and Elizabeth C. 
(Althouse) Knapp, who were representatives of pioneer families of that 
state.

	Mason E. Knapp acquired his high school education at Wilmington, 
where he concluded his studies graduating with the class of 1887. He 
afterward entered the Illinois State Normal School, from which he was 
graduated with the class of 1894, and next he became a student in the 
Colorado Agricultural College, winning his Bachelor of Science degree. 
After leaving the Illinois State Normal, however, he filled the 
position of superintendent of schools at Braidwood, Illinois, from 1895 
until 1897. He has devoted much time to teaching natural sciences, 
horticulture and agriculture, and in the early part of 1917 he was 
engaged as special writer and agricultural editor of the Greeley 
Tribune-Republican. In May of the same year he was appointed county 
agricultural agent of Weld county, his territory comprising two 
million, five hundred thousand acres of farming land, noted for its 
vast crops of wheat, beans, potatoes, alfalfa and sugar beets. Weld 
county and its agricultural agent are striving to attain the goal set 
for it by the illustrious founder of the town of Greeley and the 
Tribune, Horace Greeley, who wished to make an agricultural empire 
second to none. The efforts of Mr. Knapp are proving most effective in 
this connection and he is actuated at all times by a most progressive 
spirit that keeps him in touch with the latest discoveries concerning 
scientific agriculture.

	In 1895, in Wilmington, Illinois, Mr. Knapp was united in 
marriage to Miss Florence A. White, a daughter of James White, who was 
a farmer and a representative of one of the pioneer families of the 
state. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Knapp are as follows: James 
O., who married Frances Cope and is now a member of the Aviation Corps; 
Frank W., who was a student at the Colorado Agricultural College and is 
now a member of the Officers' Training Corps; Joseph G., a graduate of 
the Fort Collins high school; Charles W.; Stanley A.; and Frances Ella.

	The religious faith of the family is that of the Presbyterian 
church. The family has been distinctively American in its lineal and 
collateral lines through many generations, having been represented in 
the war for independence, and the mother and sister of Mr. Knapp of 
this review are members of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 
Truly American in spirit, Mr. Knapp is putting forth every effort to 
develop the natural resources of the country and especially at this 
time to make Weld county measure up to its full possibility for 
agricultural development and productiveness.