Brief Life History of Elihu
When Elihu Knapp was born on 14 March 1826, in Madison, Ohio, United States, his father, Jacob Calvin Knapp, was 53 and his mother, Mary Polly Calhoun, was 41. He married Elizabeth Jane Westbrook on 6 June 1847, in Winnebago, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Rockford, Floyd, Iowa, United States in 1860 and Rockford Township, Floyd, Iowa, United States in 1860. He died in 1901, in Rock Grove Township, Floyd, Iowa, United States, at the age of 75.
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- Elihu Knapp, "United States Census, 1860"
- Elihu Knapp, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Legacy NFS Source: Elihu Knapp - Published information: death: 1863; Rock Grove, Floyd, Iowa, United States
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
German: occupational or status name from the German word Knapp(e), a variant of Knabe ‘young unmarried man’. In the 15th century this spelling acquired the separate, specialized meanings ‘servant, apprentice’, and ‘miner’. This surname is also found elsewhere in central Europe, e.g. in Czechia and Slovakia, where it is more commonly spelled Knap (compare 3 below).
German: in Franconia, a nickname for a dexterous or skillful person, of the same ultimate origin as 1 above.
Germanized or Americanized form of Polish, Czech, Slovak, Rusyn, and Slovenian Knap , a surname of ultimately German origin (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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