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Belknap, Charles Eugene

was born Oct. 17, 1846, in Massena, N. Y. He removed with his parents to Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1855; was educated in the common schools of Grand Rapids, left. school Aug. 14, 1862, and enlisted in twenty-first regiment, Michigan infantry; was promoted to different positions, and received a captain's commission Jan. 22, 1864, at the age of seventeen years and three months; and served until June, 1865, with the army of the Cumberland . He served eleven years in the fire department of Grand Rapids as captain of a company, assistant chief, and chief; seven years on board of education; served two years as alderman; served one year as mayor ; has been a member of the board of control of state school institution for the deaf for the past four years; and is engaged in the manufacture of wagons and sleighs. He was elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second congresses.

In 1892 he was appointed chairman of the Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge Military Park commission for the state of Michigan. He has contributed war stories and Chippewa Indian myths to current literature.