Charles F. Knapp collection, 1897-1904 (bulk 1899-1900).

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Charles F. Knapp collection, 1897-1904 (bulk 1899-1900).

Includes correspondence, 2 watercolor paintings by Martha Severance Knapp, wife of Gov. Lyman E. Knapp, photographs of the Knapp family, a description of the boat ride to Dyea by Hazel Knapp Ingebright and 18 commercial photographs of the Chilkoot tramway, Dyea, and Charles F. Knapp and family.

4 folders.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7525087

Alaska State Library

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Knapp, Lyman E. (Lyman Enos), 1837-1904

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Lyman Enos Knapp was the third territorial governor of Alaska from 1889-1893, in Sitka. He was born in Somerset, VT, Nov. 5, 1837. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1862 and fought in the Civil War. After the war he edited the Middlebury Register for 13 years. He was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1876, and received an M.A. and L.L.D. from Whitman College in 1893. Knapp was probate judge in Addison County, VT, 1879-1889. In 1889, President Harrison appointed Knapp governor of Alaska and he...

Knapp, Martha Severance (American painter, 1827-1928)

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Knapp, Charles F., 1862?-1933.

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Foreman on the tramline over the Chilkoot Pass in 1899 who later joined the Klondike gold rush in 1900; nephew of Lyman E. Knapp, 3rd Territorial Governor of Alaska from 1889-1903. From the description of Charles F. Knapp collection, 1897-1904 (bulk 1899-1900). (Alaska State Library). WorldCat record id: 43535545 ...