Bio of Knapp, Hon. Francis W. (b.1838) Wabasha Co., MN
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Knapp, Hon. Francis W.: The subject of this sketch was the third child in
a family of five children born to Charles B. and Catherine (McIntyre)
Knapp, the former a native of New York State, and the latter of pure
Scotch descent. Mr. Knapp was born in Ottawa City (then By-Town), Canada,
April 17, 1838. He attended school in Canada for a few years. His father,
who was a cabinetmaker, removed with his family, in 1847, to Medina, Dane
county, Wisconsin, where he located one hundred and sixty acres of
government land for a home, and continued to work at his trade, and also
followed the business of an architect and profession of a patent-lawyer.
While the family continued to reside in Medina, Francis received a good
common school education, and, being of a studious disposition, was sent to
the State University, at Madison, Wisconsin, where he intended to complete
a full collegiate course, but, owing to defective health, was obliged to
abandon this plan at the close of the first year. He now turned his
attention to farming and school-teaching for two or three years. In May,
1860, he came to Minnesota and bought from Levi Emery eighty acres on
section 35, Highland township, and his family came the following fall. His
farm now contains two hundred and eighteen acres, on sections 34 and 35,
on which he has some fine improvements. He was married December 24, 1859,
to Hannah E. King, daughter of Jaira M. and Maria (Lum) King, a native of
Montville, Ohio, where she was born June 11, 1839. Their union has been
blessed by five children, namely, Grace M., born August 23, 1861, a pupil
in the State Normal, at Winona; Hannah E., born April 17, 1866; also a
student of the Normal; Albert H., born June 26, 1868; Catherine M., born
July 13, 1871; and Charles F., born June 11, 1875. Mr. Knapp has taught
school several times since coming to Minnesota. He was a soldier in the
10th Minn. for three years, and lost two fingers from his right hand in
the last charge at Nashville, for which he draws a pension of ten dollars
per month, and ranked as sergeant when discharged. Mr. Knapp is a
republican in politics and has taken quite an active part in political
contests. He has been treasurer, assessor and supervisor of the township,
and was a member of the lower house of the Minnesota legislature in the
winter of 1867-8.