Solomon Knapp (b. 1836)

KNAPP, DEBAR, WESTON

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 5/25/2005 at 22:22:33

Knapp, Solomon, farmer, Section 35 (Scott township); PO Buffalo Grove; born in St. Lawrence Co., NY, in 1836; located in this county in 1865. Married Mrs. Annie Debar (Weston) in 1872; she was born in Michigan in 1851; the have one child -- Otis, born June 10, 1875; Mrs. Knapp has three children by a former marriage --- Louis, May and George Debar. Mrs. Knapp is a Free-Will Baptist. He has been Supervisor one year, and School Director two years. He owns 120 acres of land, worth $20 per acre. He enlisted in the 60th NY V. I., in 1861, and served through the war, being in the battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellorville, Lookout Mountain, Buzzard's Roost, Atlanta, Dallas and many other skirmishes, going through with Gen. Sherman in his celebrated "march to the sea"; he was mustered out in June, 1865.

Page 664, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"