The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Knapp, Samuel Lorenzo

KNAPP, Samuel Lorenzo, American lawyer and author: b. Newburyport, Mass., 19 June 1774; d. Hopkinton, Mass., 8 July 1838. He was educated at Phillips Academy and graduated at Dartmouth College (1804). He studied law under Chief Justice Theophilus Parsons, at Newburyport and quickly achieved a reputation as an eminent counsellor and as active member in the State legislature. In the War of 1812 he commanded a regiment of State militia on the coast; became editor of the Boston Monthly Magazine and established (1826) the National Republican, but went to New York after two years to practise his profession. He was given the degree of LL.D. from the Paris College. He wrote ‘The Bachelor and other Tales’ (1836); ‘American Biography’ (1833); ‘Travels in North America, by Ali Bey’ (1818); ‘Life of Aaron Burr’ (1835); ‘Life of Andrew Jackson’ (1835); ‘Memoirs of General Lafayette’ (1824).