Chester W. Knapp

Male1 October 1918–10 October 1937

Brief Life History of Chester W.

When Chester W. Knapp was born on 1 October 1918, in Wilton, Will, Illinois, United States, his father, Carl Simon Knapp, was 29 and his mother, Cora Frieda Barten, was 27. He lived in Wilton Township, Will, Illinois, United States in 1920. He died on 10 October 1937, in Manhattan, Will, Illinois, United States, at the age of 19, and was buried in Wilton, Will, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Carl Simon Knapp
1889–1974
Cora Frieda Barten
1891–1919
Chester W. Knapp
1918–1937

Sources (3)

  • Chester Knapp, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Chester W. Knapp, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
  • Chester W Knapp in household of William C Barton, "United States Census, 1930"

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Siblings (1)

World Events (8)

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

Age 1

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

1920

Age 2

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

1925 · Woman's World's Fair

Age 7

The first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925. The idea of the completely women-run fair was to display the progress of ideas, work, and products of twentieth-century women

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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