Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 965
LEVI M. KNAUSS

Levi M. KNAUSS, of Jefferson Twp, section 13, owns 268 acres. He was born in Nobles County, Ind, June 7, 1844, and came to Harrison County with his father in 1855. He was married March 16, 1865, to Miss Anna Eliza Henderson; a native of Illinois, born in December, 1842, and died 6/4/1886, leaving a family of 3 children -- John Wesley, Vira B, and Vinnia L.

After first starting for himself, our subject rented land of his father for one year and then moved to Kansas, where he remained about nine months, and then returned to Harrison Co., and a year later purchased a part of his present farm.

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