Lockley, Fred. "History of the Columbia River Valley, From The Dalles to the Sea." Vol. 2. S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1928. p. 699. JOSEPH B. KNAPP Joseph B. Knapp was long connected with the United States forestry service, which led to his identification with the lumber industry, and his well developed powers and capacity for hard work have placed him with Portland's substantial business men. A native of Evansville, Indiana, he was born October 3, 1880, and is a son of Dr. Emil and Mary (Elles) Knapp. The father is a dental surgeon of high standing and for an extended period has practiced successfully in Evansville, keeping pace with the progress of the profession by taking a post graduate course each year. Although he has reached the seventy-third milestone on life's journey, he is still an active factor in the world's work but his wife has passed away. In the acquirement of an education Joseph B. Knapp attended the public schools of Evansville and continued his studies in Purdue University, from which he won the degree of Civil Engineer in 1904. For a year he worked for a railroad and then became a government employe, entering the department of forestry. During the St. Louis Fair he assisted in arranging the forestry display and in 1905 was sent to Portland to take charge of a similar exhibit at the time of the Lewis and Clark Exposition. He remained in the service of the government for eight years and from 1906 until 1913 was assistant district forester in charge of products. He is the author of numerous government publications relating to the lumber industry. Meanwhile he had been engaged in the task of investigating the manufacture of box shook as a means of creating an outlet for lumber of low grade and in 1913 was chosen manager of the Northwestern Association of Box Manufacturers, with an enrollment of forty members. During the three years that he had charge of the affairs of the association Mr. Knapp materially furthered its interests, maintaining his headquarters in Portland, and in 1916 went to Bend, Oregon, as general manager of the box department of the business of the Shevlin-Hixon Company. For four years the corporation had the benefit of his expert services and in 1920 he returned to Portland, organizing the Joseph B. Knapp Company, of which he has since been president and manager. He does a general brokerage business in box shook specialties as a manufacturer's agent and wholesaler and handles the output of the Shevlin-Hixon Company and Brooks Scanlon Lumber Company in addition to which he is the exclusive sales agent for several well known manufacturing firms. Mr. Knapp has a special talent for the work in which he is engaged and the rapid growth of the business testifies to his administrative power. He sells to sash and door concerns, fruit growers and packers of dried fruit and vegetables in various parts of the United States and also has a large export trade, making shipments to Germany, Belgium and the United Kingdom. In 1914 Mr. Knapp was married in Spokane, Washington, to Miss Cornelia Ann Pinkham, who has passed away, and they became the parents of two sons: Joseph Burke, Jr., who is fifteen years of age and a high school student; and Robert Hampden, a child of twelve. Mr. Knapp's second union was with Miss Helene Dalrymple, to whom he was married in Portland in 1920, and they have a daughter, Mary Caroline, aged six years. Mr. Knapp is a member of the Sigma Nu college fraternity and figures prominently in the affairs of the Hoo-Hoos, an organization composed of lumbermen. In politics he is a democrat and heartily indorses movements for the growth and betterment of the city and state with which he has allied his interests. He has a keen sense of life's duties and obligations and his career has been rounded with success and marked by the esteem of those men whose good opinion is worth having. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2008 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.