Carroll-Miami County IN Archives Biographies.....Knettle, William 1873 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

WILLIAM KNETTLE.

   The career of William Knettle, the subject of this sketch, is similar to that
of a number of other enterprising agriculturists of Carrollton township, who
have carved their fortunes out of mother earth, with no other help than their
own strength of will-power and continued industry.

   William Knettle, farmer, Carrollton township, Indiana, was born April 5,
1873, near Miami, in Miami county, Indiana, and is a son of William and Mary
(Beeler) Knettle. His father died one year after he was born, and he was reared
by his step-father. At the age of thirteen years, he started out to earn his own
living, working by the month until he was twenty-one years of age, up to which
time he had accomplished absolutely nothing in a financial way. After his
marriage, he worked by the month for two years, and then rented a farm for
several years, and was sufficiently successful to enable him to purchase his
present home place in 1904, which he has improved with good buildings, all of
which, he has accomplished unaided. His real estate holdings cover a quarter
section, where he resides. Mr. Knettle has always been an ardent believer in
Democratic principles, and his fraternal alliances are with the Improved Order
of Red Men, in which he has passed all the chairs and has been a member of the
grand lodge and the Knights of Pythias.

   William Knettle, Sr., father of our subject, was born in Jackson township,
Carroll county, and his wife, Mary (Beeler) Knettle, was a native of the same
county, where their marriage took place. Mr. Knettle died in 1874, and Mrs.
Knettle's death occurred in 1901, our subject being the only child by this
marriage. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Knettle was again married to
Thomas Tate, by which marriage she became the mother of eight children, five of
whom are living in 1915, Edward, John, Minnie, Ella, J. Victor and Maud, who is
deceased, as well as two who died in infancy.

   William Knettle was united in marriage, December 26, 1894, to Naomi Smoyer,
daughter of Frederick Smoyer. She was born in Carrollton township, Carroll
county, and received a good education at the public schools of the district.
This union has been blessed with one child, Frederick, born August 25, 1903, and
is now in the sixth grade at school.

   Mr. and Mrs. Knettle are kind, affable people, and have the pleasure of a
warm place in the estimation of all who know them.


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Biographical Section of
HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana

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