When William Knickerbocker was born on 4 August 1780, in Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Solomon Knickerbocker, was 25 and his mother, Anne Heath, was 28. He married Arpatia Parker about 1800, in Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 26 November 1858, in Smithville, Chenango, New York, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Knickerbocker Cemetery, Smithville Center, Chenango, New York, United States.
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Americanized form of the Dutch occupational name Knickerbacker ‘marble baker’, i.e., a baker of children's clay marbles. This lowly occupation became synonymous with the patrician class in NYC through Washington Irving's attribution of his History of New York (1809) to a fictitious author named Diedrich Knickerbocker. By the late 1850s the term had also come to denote a type of loose breeches gathered below the knee, evidently because of the resemblance of the garment to the breeches of the Dutchmen in Cruikshank's illustrations to Irving's book.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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