Brief Life History of Adolph
When Adolph Knopp was born on 17 May 1909, in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States, his father, Henry Knopp Jr, was 24 and his mother, Maria Catharina Hartung, was 23. He married Leopoldina Schnabel on 7 April 1929, in Paul, Minidoka, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Rupert Election Precinct 3, Minidoka, Idaho, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He died on 22 January 1988, in Paul, Minidoka, Idaho, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Paul Cemetery, Minidoka, Idaho, United States.
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- Adolph Knopp, "United States 1950 Census"
- Adolph Knopp, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"
- Adolph Knopp, "Idaho, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
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1910 · The Mann Act
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1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
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 ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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