BIO: HENRY KNAUB, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 471-472
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    HENRY KNAUB, one of the representative men of Monroe township, Cumberland
  county, Pa., and one of the highly esteemed men of his community, is a son of
  Samuel and grandson of Henry Knaub.
    
    The great-grandfather of our subject was born in Germany, but came to
  America and settled in. York county, Pa., and there died. Henry Knaub, son of
  the emigrant, was born in York county, about three miles southeast of York
  city. There he became the owner of a farm, which he sold, and then moved to
  Dillsburg, where he followed farming until his death.
    
    Samuel Knaub, son of Henry, Sr., and father of Henry, was born in 1812, in
  York county, Pa., and there he received a common school education. He married
  Sarah Harper, also of York county, whose father was a miller by trade, and a
  soldier in the Revolutionary war, who, at his death, was buried with military
  honors. In 1837 Samuel Knaub came to Cumberland county, and located at
  Shepherdstown. After two years he returned to York county, then came back to
  Cumberland and settled in Monroe township, where he bought a small tract of
  land, remaining upon it for five years. His next change was made to Adams
  county, where once more he purchased a small farm, and there he died aged
  seventy-five years. His wife also passed away there, aged sixty-five years.
  Their children were: Henry; Mary, who married Jacob M. Comfort, and lives in
  York county; William, who married Sarah Herman, and lives in Dauphin county;
  Joshua, who died at Ashland, Schuylkill county in 1904; Lydia, who married
  Jacob Brandt, and lives in South Middleton township; James, who died in 1857,
  in York county, aged four years; George, who married Edna Trimmer, and lives
  near Dillsburg, York county.
    
    Henry Knaub was born Oct. 19, 1836, in York county, and there was educated
  in the common schools. He worked for his father until he was twenty-one years
  of age, and a year later he started out in life for himself. He then married
  Catherine Diller, a daughter of Solomon Diller and Oct. 8, 1858, the young
  couple located at Churchtown, Monroe township, where they still reside. For a
  number of years, Mr. Knaub was successfully engaged in basket making,
  manufacturing all kinds of baskets, making a specialty of those of willow,
  and he had a large sale for his goods throughout Cumberland and surrounding
  counties, and in adjoining States, even as far as Kansas, where he had an
  extensive trade, and he built up a large business, continuing until 1903. At
  present he is the agent, for Cumberland county, of the Western Medical
  Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio.
    
    The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Knaub were: Sarah Ellen, born Dec. 28,
  1860, died at the age of eight months; Lillie, born in 1863, died when
  thirteen days old. In politics Mr. Knaub is a Republican, and both he and his
  excellent wife are consistent members of the United Brethren Church of Boiling
  Springs.

  
    472  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
    
    SOLOMON DILLER, father of Mrs. Knaub, was a son of Casper Diller, the
  latter of whom came from Lancaster county and settled near Churchtown,
  Cumberland county. Solomon Diller had the following family: Simon Peter
  married Mary ----- who came from Mexico, Pa.; Samuel Alexander married Sadie
  Leib of Mt. Holly Springs; William Elisha; Mary married Henry Pentz of
  Dillsburg; Julia married Jacob Duey; Catherine, Mrs. Knaub; Rachael married
  Frederick Cornman; Ann Rachel; Sarah Jane; and Ida Cordelia married Henry
  Eshleman, of Cumberland county. Solomon Diller lived to the advanced age of
  eighty-four years, while his wife passed away at the age of eighty-three
  years, and both were very estimable people.
    
    Mr. Knaub is now sixty-eight years of age, but is active, energetic and
  ambitious, performing the duties of his position with the ability of a much
  younger man. In May, 1852, Mr. Knaub was converted, and four years later
  joined the church of which he and his wife are such faithful members,
  earnestly endeavoring to follow themselves, and lead others in the Master's
  footsteps.  Their gentle, charitable, kindly lives teach a noble lesson to
  those about them, and point a moral all can read. Few men have less to regret
  in their lives than this broad-minded, kindhearted, Christian man, who carries
  his religion into his daily business life, and who believes in the teaching of
  Him who laid down the rulings for our constant use, to the extent that he will
  not do anything, however small, which he believes will in any way encroach
  upon them, or reflect upon his duty as a member of the Church in Christ.