Representative Thomas Bracy Knapp View All Years

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Thomas Bracy Knapp

Hardin County

THOMAS B. KNAPP was born in Danbury, Conn., July 9, 1822; he died in Iowa Falls, Iowa, Jan. 31, 1905. When a boy his family removed to New York state and later to Ohio, where he attended the academy at Norwalk. He spent some years during the ’40’s in Alabama and California. In 1854 he located in Hardin county, Iowa, and purchased land on the Iowa river. During the civil war he served as sutler of the 32d Iowa Infantry. After the war he engaged in business in Iowa Falls, where for a time he was postmaster, and for many years a justice of the peace. He was a member of the 11th and 12th General Assemblies, and was a delegate to the first Republican convention held in Iowa, at Iowa City, in 1855. He wrote many of his pioneer reminiscences for The Iowa Falls Sentinel.

House District 45

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11th GA (1866)

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