Richard Baxter Knapp dictations, questionnaires, and biographical sketch, circa 1885-1889.

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Richard Baxter Knapp dictations, questionnaires, and biographical sketch, circa 1885-1889.

Include dictations by or about Knapp, one by Matthew P. Deady; three questionnaires; clipping; and two drafts, with corrections in manuscript, of the published sketch. Mainly concerning his commission and agricultural implement business in Oregon from 1859.

Originals : 5 folders.Copies : partial microfilm reel (45 exposures) : negative (Rich. 105:18) and positive.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7015485

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Knapp, Richard Baxter, 1839-

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Deady, Matthew P. (Matthew Paul), 1824-1893

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Matthew Paul Deady, son of Daniel and Mary Ann (McSweeny) Deady, was born near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland on May 12, 1824. The Deady family worked a farm first in Maryland and, after 1828, in Wheeling, Virginia. Deady received his early education from his father and later at Wheeling's Lancasterian Academy. In 1837, three years after Mary Ann Deady's death, the family moved to Ohio. From 1841 to 1845 Deady was apprenticed to a blacksmith and, at the same time, attended Barnes...