Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Shepherd Knapp
Banker
Centurion, 1847–1850
born
January 7, 1795
Cummington, Massachusetts
Cummington, Massachusetts
died
February 22, 1875
New York (Manhattan), New York
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected
January 13, 1847
Age fifty-two
Age fifty-two
buried
Green-Wood Cemetery,
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn, New York
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”