Genesee-Washtenaw County MI Archives Biographies.....Knapp, Leonard E. 1842 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

LEONARD E. KNAPP, M. D., of Fenton, one of the leading physicians of Michigan,
is now devoting himself to practice on special lines and receives patients from
every part of the State. He has a finely equipped office and a medical library
of some seven hundred volumes. He was born in Salem, Washtenaw County, this
State, November 24, 1842. His parents, Myron E. and Amanda M. (Hall) Knapp, were
both New Yorkers, and the father came to Washtenaw County with a brother when a
boy of eleven years. He spent his early years as a mechanic, and in the latter
part of his life became a farmer. The mother died in 1875, but the father is
still living in Salem Township, Washtenaw County.

  Of the three sons and four daughters of this worthy couple, six grew to
maturity. After studying in the district schools, Leonard Knapp took a three
years' course in the High School at Ypsilanti and also graduated at Eastman's
Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He began the study of medicine in 1866,
entering the medical department of the University of Michigan, and one year
later became a student in the Homeopathic Hospital College at Cleveland, Ohio,
whence he graduated in February, 1869.

  The young Doctor returned to Michigan and located at Linden, Genesee County,
where he carried on the practice for eight years, and in 1877 located at Fenton.
In the winter of 1887-88 he took a course in the New York Post-Graduate Medical
School and Hospital, and returning in 1888-89 received a diploma. Since then he
has devoted himself especially to surgery, gynecology and diseases of the eye,
ear, throat and nose.

  Dr. Knapp was married in 1869 to Melissa C. Stevens, a native of Wayne County,
Mich. Their three children are M. Eloise, Mark S. and Don D. M. Eloise and Mark
S. are graduates of the Fenton High School, and the latter is now taking a
literary course at Ann Arbor. Dr. Knapp is a Democrat in politics. He has been a
member of the Common Council, and of the School Board, having been President of
the latter for six years, and taking great pride in the success of the public
schools of Fenton. For seven years he served as Eminent Commander of the Knights
Templar. He is a member of the Homeopathic Society of the State, and enjoys a
fine practice. His laboratory is complete in every particular, and his surgical
apparatus includes almost every known appliance of its kind. He has a fine
residence and office, besides other valuable town property.

  In connection with the sketch, the reader will notice a lithographic portrait
of the Doctor.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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