Anton Knapp Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Beetown, Biographical Sketches, Page 1020 

ANTON KNAPP, former, Sec. 5; P. O. Bloomington; born in 1841 in Germany; came to 
America in 1847; located in Grant Co., Wis., near British Hollow; after living 
in Grant Co. for thirteen years he moved to California; resided there two years, 
then returned to Grant Co., where he has since lived. Enlisted in 1862, in the 
25th W. V. I., Co. H.; served three years; he was with Sherman on his first raid 
on the Meridian. He was married in 1865 to Miss E. Roberts; has four children - 
Alice L., Perry H., Nettie M., Clay W. Is a Republican. Has 162 acres of land.