Biography:  Anton KNAPP, Cassville, Grant Co., Wisconsin

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Excerpted from Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of 
Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wisconsin (J. H. Beers & Co., 
Chicago, 1901, p. 907)

[Anton] Knapp is one of the leading and influential citizens of 
Cassville township, Grant county, who has taken an active part in 
promoting its substantial improvement and material development.  An 
adopted son of America, his loyalty is above question, and for three 
years he fought for the old flag and the cause it represented during 
the Civil war.

Mr. Knapp was born in Germany, in 1840, a son of Conrad and Mary 
Knapp, who came to America in 1846, bringing with them their nine 
children, but of this once numerous family only two members are now 
living, in 1900, these being our subject and Jasper, a resident of 
Lancaster, Wis.  One son, Philip, served with our subject in the war 
for the Union, a member of the same company and regiment.

In August, 1862, A. Knapp offered his services to the government, and 
became a member of Company H. 25th Wis. V. I.  When hostilities ceased 
he was honorably discharged, June 27, 1865, after almost three years 
of active and faithful service on southern battle fields, never being 
off duty with exception of six weeks, when confined by sickness in the 
hospital at Memphis, Tenn., during which time his regiment was 
stationed at Helena, Ark.  Mr. Knapp took part in Sherman's Atlanta 
campaign, the famous March to the Sea, and then marched on to 
Washington, D.C., where he participated in the Grand Review.  Like 
most old veterans, he feels the effect of his long army service more 
and more as the years go by, his chief troubles being rheumatism, 
caused by exposure, an partial deafness, caused by the explosion of a 
shell.

On Dec. 31, 1865, Mr. Knapp was united in marriage with Miss Edie L. 
Roberts, a daughter of Herman and Elizabeth Roberts, natives of 
Kentucky and Ohio, respectively, and early settlers of Beetown, Grant 
Co., Wis.  They left the county after many years residence here, and 
the mother died in Colorado, the father in Missouri.  Mrs. Knapp is a 
native of Illinois, and is one of a family of ten children, five of 
whom are living in 1900.  Mr. Knapp and his wife have five children, 
three sons and two daughters, namely:  Alice L., Perry H., Nettie M., 
Clav. W. and Park.  In 1897 Mr. Knapp, with his family, moved to 
Kansas, thinking that a change of climate would be beneficial to his 
health and after one year spent in that State, went to Iowa, where he 
remained two years, but receiving no apparent benefit from the change, 
he returned to Wisconsin in March, 1900.  Here he is comfortably 
situated on a fine farm in Cassville township, Grant county, and 
enjoys many of the comforts of life.  He was one of the faithful 
soldiers in the war for the Union, and is to-day one of the most 
highly respected citizens of his community.