U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Knapp, Jacob Henry (1868-1938) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Page 415 Jacob Henry Knapp, born in Barbour County January 8, 1868, son of John B. and Sallie Ann (Smith) Knapp, was married near Elk City, Sept. 7, 1893, to Florence Emma, daughter of Mordecai D. and Armettie (Hudkins) Riley. Children, Jacob H, Jr., born Aug 4, 1894, and Florence Marjoram, born March 22, 1899. Mr Knapp is a Baptist, a Knight of Pythias, a Dem- ocrat and a merchant residing at Philippi. He was educated in the free schools of Barbour. From July 1, 1893, to December 1, 1898, he was U. S. Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue. His grandfather, Henry Knapp, came from the State of New York and was a Barbour County pioneer, working for years at the trade of chair maker. His grandmother Smith was a pioneer settler on Sugar Creek, near Meadowville, and was a woman of remarkable intellect and business management. The subject of this sketch began working from home at the age of thirteen, and kept it up for about seventeen years, following many lines of work. He applied the principle that persistent labor will bring results and he thinks that want and poverty would be materially lessened if all boys and young men would try the same principle. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATH CERTIFICATE, Wood County WV, #11553 Full-name: Jacob Henry Knapp Birth: Jan 8, 1868 in Barbour County, W.Va. Death: Aug 2, 1938 at 1007 Quincy St., Parkersburg, Wood County, WV Marital-status: Married, Florence Riley Occupation: Retired, Knapp Inventment Securities Father: John B. Knapp, born in Barbour County, W.Va. Mother: Nancy N. Smith, born in Barbour County, W.Va. Informant: Stanley N. Vaughan of Parkersburg, W.Va. Cause-of-death: Hypernephroma rt Kidney & Metastasis Burial: Philippi, W.Va. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------