Adolph Knopp

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
1909–1988
Leopoldina Schnabel
1908–1998
Marriage: 7 April 1929
Alta Mae Knopp
1930–
Ronald Henry Knopp
1932–2010

Sources (26)

  • 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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World Events (8)

1910 · The BSA is Made

Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.

1910 · The Mann Act

This Act makes engaging in transport of any woman for any immoral purpose, prostitution, illegal. Its primary intent was to address prostitution, immorality, and human trafficking, particularly where trafficking was for the purposes of prostitution.

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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