Brief Life History of Wesley J
When Wesley J Knapp was born on 4 June 1900, in Yates, New York, United States, his father, Theodore Knapp, was 25 and his mother, Alice J Powell, was 21. He married Edna N Hall on 18 June 1921, in Yates, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 5 December 1965, in Penn Yan, Yates, New York, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Potter, Yates, New York, United States.
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- Westley Knapp, "United States Census, 1920"
- J Wesley Knapp, "New York, Birth Indexes outside of New York City, 1881-1942"
- Jay Wesley Knapp, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
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1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
1917 · Women Given the Right to Vote in New York
Voters in New York approve a bill giving women the right to vote. This is passed three years prior to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution which allowed women to vote nationwide.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
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.
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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