Biography

06/29/1851 - 08/19/1928

Frank Manley Knapp (R48) Venango and Warren Counties 1911-1914

Early Life:

Frank Manley Knapp, born June 29, 1851, Lander, Farmington Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania; son of Thomas Manley and Lorinda Brown Knapp; public school education; Edinboro State Normal School; Jamestown Collegiate Institute;; studied law, Johnson and Lindsey admitted Warren County bar, 1875; Chairman, Republican County Committee, 1878-1888; first lieutenant, Company I, 16th Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard, 1879-1886; elected, treasurer, Warren County, 1880-1883; school director, of Warren, nine years, councilman three years; elected, prothonotary of Warren County, 1898-1904; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1911-1914; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1924; married, Rosamond Ensworth daughter, Lucile Knapp DeLong; died, August 19, 1928 (aged 77), Warren, Warren County, Pennsylvania; interment, Oakland Cemetery, Pleasant Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania.

Early Career:

First lieutenant, Company I, 16th Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard, 1880-1887; engaged, insurance business; engaged, furniture manufacturing oil production business, 1890; organized, first president, Warren Trust Company, 1902; president, Jacobson Machine Manufacturing Company, president, Abbott Motor Company, of Detroit, Michigan, vice-president, treasurer, Warren Table Works, secretary, Allegheny Foundry Company; secretary, treasurer, American Carbon Company; treasurer, secretary, Weston Carbon Company; secretary, treasurer, Southern Carbon Company; secretary, treasurer, Rock Run Carbon Company; president, Warren Furniture Company; president, Warren Gear Products Company; president, Warren National Bank; treasurer, secretary, Warren Lumber Company; treasurer, Ebony Carbon Company; vice president, director, Jamestown Oregon Lumber Company; organizer, director, Warren and Jamestown Street Railway Company

Pennsylvania Politics:

Chairman, Republican County Committee, 1878-1888.

Elected, county treasurer, Warren County 1880-1883.

School director, of Warren, nine years, councilman three years.

Elected, prothonotary of Warren County, 1898-1904.

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 48th district, Venango and Warren Counties, 1911-1914; committee assignments, Appropriations, Corporations, Education, Forestry, Legislative Apportionment, Public Roads and Highways, Railroads.

Delegate, Republican National Convention, 1924.

Cited:

The Pennsylvania Manual, (1914). Miller, H.P., (Compiler). Baker, W.H., (Assistant Compiler). Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 1091, 1097-1100, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 1071. 

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members K". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

Frank Manley Knapp (1851-1928) - Find a Grave Memorial