Dr. Joseph J. Knapp and Carrie M. Preston

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Husband Dr. Joseph J. Knapp ¹

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           Born: 15 Jun 1854 - Farmington, Warren Co, PA 1
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         Father: Noah Knapp (1823-1896) 1
         Mother: Almeda Jenkins (1829-      ) 1

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       Marriage: 27 Apr 1881 2

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Wife Carrie M. Preston ²

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           Born:  - Farmington, Warren Co, PA
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         Father: Nelson Preston (1829-1896) 3
         Mother: Hannah Rumsey Wright (1830-      ) 4

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Children

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1 F Nellie Alice Knapp ²

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           Born: 22 Apr 1882 - Kinzua, Warren Co, PA 2
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2 M Ralph Hiram Knapp ²

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           Born: 23 Jan 1884 - Kinzua, Warren Co, PA 2
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3 F Edith Lovisa Knapp ²

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           Born: 13 Apr 1890 - Kinzua, Warren Co, PA 2
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Joseph J. Knapp

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He was born in Farmington, Pennsylvania, in a log house, located two and three-quarters miles from where the village of Lander was later located. He worked on his father's farm in Farmington township, having removed from his birthplace at two years of age with his parents to Marshtown, same township. He attended the common schools of the neighborhood. In the fall of 1871 he attended a preparatory school in Jamestown, New York, and later a school in Russell, Pennsylvania, taught by Comfort E. Peck. During the winter of 1872-73 he taught his first term of school at Fairbanks district, Farmington township, a three months' term, with fifteen scholars. Subsequently he taught winter terms in the following places: Parker district, Preston district, Marshtown district; Center A. grade, spring term in Elk township, summer term at Irvington, Pennsylvania. During the spring and fall seasons, when he was not teaching, he attended the high school at Jamestown, where he graduated from the commercial and normal departments.
During the spring of 1878, while attending his last term at the Jamestown high school, he decided to devote his time and attention to a professional career, choosing that of medicine and surgery. On July 5, 1878, he began study with Dr. H. H. Cowles at Lander, Pennsylvania, and during the fall and winter of the same year taught a select school at Lander. In September he attended the Teachers County Institute at Warren, Pennsylvania, and a few weeks later passed an examination and received a teachers permanent certificate. The winter of 1878 was spent as principal of the village school at Lander, his leisure time being devoted to the study of anatomy, physiology and materia medica. On September 25, 1879, after spending the summer on the farm and in study, he went to Baltimore, Maryland, and entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, his roommates being Laban Hazeltine, D. B. Sprecker and F. H. Siece. The following February he returned to his home and there spent the spring and summer in studying and farming. The winter of 1880-81 he spent at the same college, his roommates being E. H. Ashcraft, P. P. Fisher and O. O. Blakeslee. He took a special course and was office student to Professor O. J. Coskary, who occupied the chair of surgery. He graduated as a Doctor of Medicine, March 1, 1881.
He located for active practice at Kinzua, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1881, his office being located on Main street. By honest and conscientious work he won a high reputation for skill in his profession, and he derived a good income from attendance upon the employees of the great saw and shingle mills of the community. In 1883 he erected a handsome house, in which his office was located until 1898, when he added a new one. On November 4, 1904, he removed to Youngsville, Pennsylvania, and opened an office in the Kinnear Building. On March 22, 1905, he purchased the Kinnear house on the north side of East Main street, nearly in the center of the town, and immediately commenced reconstructing it, fitting up a three room suite for offices, which he then occupied. He achieved a large degree of success in his new location, due in great measure to his skill and proficiency in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, to the interest he evinced in his patients, and to his mastery of detail in whatever engaged his attention.
He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he served as trustee, steward, secretary and treasurer. He was first a Republican in politics, but later a staunch supporter of the principles of the Prohibition party for twenty-five years; finally he allied himself with the Progressives. He served as school director and secretary of the school board. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he held the office of noble grand, and was a past grand of the Knights of the Maccabees, in which order he was keeper of finances and medical examiner.

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General Notes: Wife - Carrie M. Preston

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from Lander, Warren Co, PA

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 760.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 761.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 762.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 763.