Jacob Knopfli (Knoepfli)
- Occupation
- grocer
- Origin
- Humikon, Switzerland
- Sources
- Santerre, DMN 1906, Franziska #38, Sandell, Cordillot
- Notes
- daughter Lizzette m. Henri Boll in the colony (DMN 1906); NB colonists.py has Elizabeth Knoepfli m. C. Voirin — two daughters or a conflict, unresolved
Ship
- Franziska, Bremen → Galveston, departed 13 May, arrived 4 July 1855 — #38, as
KNOPFLI, Jacob, Switzerland
Positions
- Co. K, 19th Texas Cavalry, Confederate army — undated (enlisted) [sandell IV] with a Wm Knapfli; from the timeline's life-events layer, to verify. NPS: no Jacob or William under any spelling; the one Knopfli in Texas is Henry, below
From the register of positions.
Biography
Jacob Knopfli
Name
Canonical: Jacob Knopfli
German: Jakob Knoepfli / Knöpfli
Also: Knapfli, Knapfly (Sandell); "J. Knepfly" (DMN 1906); "KNOPFLI,
Jacob" (Franziska manifest); Jacob K. Knopfli (Boll's 1892 sketch)
Birth: Switzerland (Santerre: Humikon)
Death: unknown
Burial: unknown
Origin: Humikon, canton Zurich; a grocer
Family
Wife: Barbara nee Steinman (Boll's 1892 sketch; Cordillot's appendix)
Daughter: Elizabeth (Lizzette), married Henri Boll July 22, 1856; she
came with Boll's parents in 1856, not on the Franziska
A Jacob Kanopfly, 16, Switzerland, in G. W. Baird's Dallas household in
the 1860 census -- a son
Wm and Jacob Knapfli, Co. K, 19th Texas Cavalry (the life-events layer)
Occupation at colony: unclear
Occupation in Dallas: farmer, grocer; "Knopfli & Sons"
Ship / arrival: Franziska, Bremen to Galveston, 13 May - 4 July 1855,
passenger #38, with Burkli's Swiss group
Post-colony
- The Swiss grocery-and-meat partnership: Boll "in association with the
Henri brothers, H. Frick and Knoepfli" (Cordillot); Frick "in
association with the Henri brothers, Knoepfli and his son-in-law Boll";
Paul Henri likewise
- 1884: Knopfli & Sons build "the first skyscraper" at Poydras and Main,
stained glass, $2,800 (Sandell III/IV)
Sources
Santerre, White Cliffs of Dallas (1955), colonist list
Franziska passenger list, #38 (doc/colonists/ships/franziska/roster.md)
Sandell, assimilation thesis (1986), directory; ch. III-IV
Lewis, Memorial and Biographical History (1892), Boll sketch, p. 626
Cordillot, Au Texas (2003), Boll and Frick notices, appendix
1860 census, frame 89 line 30
Notes
Boll's father-in-law and the fourth name in every account of the Swiss
firm; the family's 1884 building on the square is the East Dallas Swiss
arriving downtown. His own dates are the gap.