Background
Knappen, Theodore Macfarlane was born on October 23, 1871 in near Poynette, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Theodore Frelinghuysen and Sarah Letitia (Macfarlane) Knappen.
Knappen, Theodore Macfarlane was born on October 23, 1871 in near Poynette, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Theodore Frelinghuysen and Sarah Letitia (Macfarlane) Knappen.
Bachelor of Science, University of Minnesota, 1891.
Civ. engineer with G. North. and Duluth, South. Shore and Atlantic rys., 1891-1893. With Minneapolis Times and Saint Paul Call, 1894-1895, Minneapolis Journal, 1895-1903, becoming associate editors Various Florida, Montana, Canadian and California immigration and land settlement enterprises until 1916.
Industrial, correspondent New York Tribune, 1917-1918, then editor National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association and associate editor Magazine of Wall Street (New York).
Assistant manager campaign of Governor John A. Johnson of Minnesota for Democratic nomination for President of the United States, 1908. Executive secretary bureau of clubs, Democratic National Committee, 1916.
Married Nellie Malura Cross, August 29, 1896. Children: Judson Norcross, Theodore Temple, Phoebe Malura, Andrew Macfarlane.