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Knapp, Jacob Hermann – Knight, Cyrus Frederic

Knapp, Jacob Hermann

physician, surgeon, lecturer, was born March 17, 1832, in Prussia. He founded the New York ophthalmic and aural institute in 1869, and since that date has been its surgeon.

Knapp, Joseph G

lawyer, jurist. He was a citizen of Wisconsin, from which state he was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of New Mexico, residing at Santa Fe.

Knapp, Lyman Enos

soldier, lawyer, legislator, jurist, governor, was born Nov. 5, 1837, in Somerset, Vt. He served in the civil war and was brevetted by President Lincoln for gallantry at Petersburg, Va. He served as a member of the Vermont state legislature, and for ten years was judge of probate court of Addison district of Vermont. In 1889-93 he served as governor of Alaska.

Knapp, Martin W

clergyman, author, poet, was born March 27, 1853, in Clarendon, Mich. He is a successful clergyman of Albion, Mich.; and the editor of The Revivalist. He is the author of Christ Crowned Within; and Out of Egypt into Canaan; and a volume of poems.

Knapp, Robert M

lawyer, congressman. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-third congress; and was also elected to the fortyfifth congress.

Knapp, Samuel Lorenzo

lawyer, author, was born Jan. 19, 1783, in Newburyport, Mass. He was a lawyer of New York city, among whose many works are The Genius of Freemasonry; Travels in North America by Ali Bey; American Biography; Lives of Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster; and Female Biography. He died July 8, 1838, in Newburyport, Mass.

Knapp, Walter H

educator, lawyer, jurist, was born March 23, 1856, in Hopewell, N. Y. He has attained success in the profession of law at Canandaigua, N. Y.; and is now judge of Ontario county, term commencing in 1897.

Kneeland, Abner

clergyman, journalist, author, was born April 6, 1774, in Gardner, Mass. He was a universalist clergyman who became a free-thinker, and established The Investigator in Boston in 1832. He was the author of The Deist; Universal Benevolence; Universal Salvation; and Review of Evidences of Christianity. He died Jan. 14, 1884, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Kneeland, Samuel

printer, journalist, was born in 1696, in Boston, Mass. Besides many religious books and pamphlets, he published The Gazette from 1727 till 1741, and The New England Weekly Journal from 1741 till 1752. He died Dec. 14, 1769, in Boston, Mass.

Knickerbocker, David Buel

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E. bishop, was born Feb. 24, 1833, in Schaghticoke, N. Y. Having been elected the third bishop of Indiana, he was consecrated at St. Mark's, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1883.

Knickerbocker, Herman

lawyer, congressman, was born July 27, 1782, in Albany, N. Y. He was a member of congress from 1809 to 1811, as a federalist, but during President Jackson's administration became a democrat. He died Jan. 30, 1855, in Williamsburg, N. Y.

Knight, Cyrus Frederic

P. E. bishop, author, was born March 28, 1831, in Marblehead, Mass. He was elected bishop of Milwaukee on Dec. 13, 1888. He has published occasional sermons and Changes in the Communion Office (New York).