Horace Knapp

KNAPP, STEPHENS, SHIELDS

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 3/18/2002 at 20:45:19

Horace Knapp, among the first settlers in Clarksville, came to Butler county in 1855, and followed farming a few years. In 1864 he settled on section 6, Butler township, where he now owns 90 acres. Mr. Knapp was born in Rhode Island in 1832. At the age of fourteen years he emigrated with his uncle, H. K. Stephens, to Joliet, Illinois. He subsequently removed to Michigan, remaining until 1861. In March he married Miss Isabel Shields. They have eight children – Henry D., Nellie, Edith, Rosey, Frank, Isabel and Horace.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Pages 522-525