Newton Co., IN Biography

Newton County, Jefferson Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton 
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.

   JOHN KNOUFF, farmer, was born December 24, 1831, in Bedford County,
Pennsylvania, and is a son of Anthony and Sarah (Croft) Knouff, the 
former a native of Maryland, the latter of Pennsylvania.  They moved 
to Stark County, Ohio, in 1857, and settled on a farm.  The father 
died August 8, 1874, aged seventy-four; the mother in December 1882, 
aged seventy, both in Stark County.  The father was a member of the 
Dunkard, and the mother of the Lutheran Church.  They had twelve 
children, seven now living.
   John made his father's house his home, and came to Ohio with that 
parent in 1857.  He was married in June, 1861, to Miss Julia A. Sell,
of Stark County, Ohio.  They came to Newton County in April 1864,
stopped in Kentland the first six months, and then moved to his present
farm two and three quarter miles north of Kentland, where he owns 171
acres of well-improved land.  He has been here since 1864; has his farm
well stocked, and is classed among the progressive farmers of the 
county.
   Mr. and Mrs. Knouff have had nine children--Ida J., Minnie E., John
E., Albert, Willie, Charles A., Warren B,., Bessie M. and Sherman.  
Albert died in infancy; Willie in 1872, in his third year; Minnie E.
was married, April 30, 1883, to Charles Ulrey, of this county; the 
other children are living with their parents.  Mrs. Knouff is a member 
of the M.E. Church.  In politics, Mr. Knouff is a Democrat.


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