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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

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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.

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