Banker
Centurion, 1847–1850
Born 7 January 1795 in Cummington, Massachusetts
Died 22 February 1875 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Green-Wood Cemetery
, Brooklyn, New York
Proposed by N/A: Founder
Elected 13 January 1847 at age fifty-two
Century Memorial
Knapp was the president of the Mechanics Bank and was chairman of a public meeting that protested the repudiation of much of the Missouri Compromise as “a wanton, aggressive revival of agitation and irritation concerning Slavery.”
William A. Frosch
“Our Original Amateurs, 2009”