When Arthur Sebree Knorpp Sr was born on 1 April 1896, in Van Buren, Missouri, United States, his father, Lawrence Knorpp, was 34 and his mother, Ida Ozelle Sebree, was 29. He married Mamie Dora Stubblefield on 15 April 1917, in Groom, Carson, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Moore, Texas, United States in 1935 and Commissioner's Precinct 1, Hale, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 6 November 1980, in Amarillo, Potter, Texas, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Amarillo, Potter, Texas, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
German: from Middle Low German, knōp ‘swelling, lump, knob, button, glob’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of buttons, or a nickname for a small, rotund man, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a rounded hillock. Compare Knoop .
English (Essex): from Middle English knopp, knope ‘small rounded protuberance, knob’ (Old English cnoppa), used topographically, or as a nickname from the same word, used of the knope of the knee and the elbow-joint.
English (Essex): variant of Nobb (see Nobbe ).
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