BIO: Matthew KNEPP, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 417.
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  MATTHEW KNEPP, owner of 172 acres of very fine land situated in Bradford 
township, Clearfield county, Pa., was born in this township, one-half mile north 
of his present farm, in 1866, and Bradford township has been his home all his 
life.  His parents were B. and Sarah Knepp, the former of whom was born in 
Juniata county and came to Clearfield county in youth, with his parents, who 
were pioneers in Bradford township.  He followed farming and lumbering.
  Matthew Knepp obtained his education in the public schools of Bradford 
township.  He has devoted himself to farm pursuits from boyhood and is numbered 
with the most successful agriculturists of this section.  While general farming 
and stock raising is his rule, he specializes to some extent in wheat and 
buckwheat.  He has an easy market for his produce, his land lying on the Gray 
Hampton road, within five miles of Woodland.
  In 1876 Mr. Knepp was married to Miss Carrie Jury, a daughter of John Jury of 
Girard township, and seven children were born to them, as follows:  Blanche Mae, 
who was married first to Roy Lansbury (now deceased) and had one child, Arleina, 
and secondly to Clyde Wilson, of which union there is one child, Rita Villa; Oma 
O.; Gertie Belle, who died when aged eighteen months; Chester Kale, who died at 
the age of three years; Jessie Clair, who lived to be nine years old; and Ralph 
Estil and Thelma Marie.  Mr. Knepp and family belong to the Brethren church of 
Shiloh, in Bradford township, and he is treasurer of the Sunday school.  From 
1906 until 1908 Mr. Knepp served as a school director but has never been willing 
to accept any other public office.  He is one of the township's best known and 
most respected citizens.