Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Knips, G. 1832 - 
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  G. KNIPS, who resides on a farm in Lismore township, just outside of the

village of Lismore, is one of the first men to take a claim in Leota township

and one of the oldest settlers of northwestern Nobles county.



  Mr. Knips was born in Germany Aug. 15, 1832, the son of Kasper Joseph Knips,

who was a judge in his native land. Our subject learned the brewer's trade in

Germany and came to the United States in 1852. He located in St. Louis, where

for five years he was in a malt house. Moving to Stillwater, Minn., in 1857, he

started a brewery there, which he conducted twenty years. He came to Nobles

county in 1877 and took a homestead and tree claim on section 22, Leota

township, when there were only two settlers in that township. He resided on the

farm there until 1903, when he bought his present eighty acre farm on section 2,

Lismore township, since which he has made his home on the edge of town.



  In the city of St. Louis on Oct. 10, 1854, Mr. Knips was married to Miss Maud

Wellhausen, a native of Germany. She died in 1888, aged 62 years. To them were

born eight children as follows: Robert, William, Amel, Louis, Otto, Eugene,

Clara, Emma.



  For several terms Mr. Knips served as chairman of the Leota township board of

supervisors and he was also director of school district No. 75 for many years.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908



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