sentences:  Knapp's father, Charles Knapp, was a banker and a Republican politician (he served in both the New York State Assembly as well as in the United States House of Representatives).He graduated from the Delaware Literary Institute (then the Franklin School) of Franklin (village), New York in 1863 and Hamilton College (Class of 1866) in Clinton, New York (where he was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity) and joined the family Knapp Bank.He married Charlotte Augusta Ford of Binghamton, NY on 16 February 1871 and had seven children with her.