When Mary Louisa Knapp was born on 4 March 1846, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, her father, Martin W Knapp, was 24 and her mother, Julia Ann Bercier, was 17. She married Thomas Kimball Messersmith on 27 March 1865, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1852 and lived in Brooklyn Township, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States in 1850 and Cedar, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 28 February 1884, in Cedar Fort, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Cedar Fort Cemetery, Cedar Fort, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
The Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad started running in February 1851, 15 years after it was charted for construction. It later absorbed a small bankrupt railroad in 1861 to help expand its services beyond just Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. In May 1868, the railroad merged with the Bellefontaine Railway to connect the current cities with Indianapolis.
The Perry Monument was erected at the center of Public Square to commemorate the victory of the Battle of Lake Erie by Oliver Hazard Perry. It was Ohio's first monumental sculpture. It has since been moved to Fort Huntington Park.
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).
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