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• Name: Edward Capt KNOSKE
• Sex: M
• Birth: Kutztown, Berks Co, Pennsylvania ^b
• Death: 11 Sep 1896 ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Johann Rev KNOSKE Birth: 24 Jun 1779 in Herrenstadt, Breslau, Prussia Death: 24 Sep 1859 in Reading, Berks Co, Pennsylvania
Mother:

• Elizabeth KOCH Birth: 1 Sep 1782 Death: 16 Feb 1868

Family:
Marriage:

• Catherine BOWER .^m1
  
• Catherine BOWER

Children:

1. Louisa E KNOSKE Birth: 2 Mar 1858 in Reading, Pennsylvania

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

place:

[Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p404],

parents:

[Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p404]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p404]

Sources with Information about marriage to Catherine BOWER

child:

[Ref: June Jones 12/1/2002, Montgomery BerksCoPA p404]

Research Notes:
Captain [Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p404]

lieutenant in the Ringgold Light Artillery for 9 years; commissioned Feb 22 1861 [Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p404]

May 9 1861: enlisted for 2 years to Company D, 4th NYVI; discharged May 5 1863 [Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p404]

Dec 1863: re-enlisted for 3 years in Company G, 5th NYV Artillery; transferred Jan 6 1864 to Company A [Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p404]

May 25 1865: made Captain at Harper's Ferry [Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p404]

---------- Morton Montgomery, p404:
Capt. Edward Knoske, son of Rev. Johann, was a well-known citizen of Berks county and an honored veteran of the Civil war. He was born in Kutztown, and there learned the tanner's trade. For some time he clerked in a store in Reading, and then located at Bower's Station in Maxatawny township. While there he brought the first car load of hard coal ever shipped to that town. He was prominent at the time of the Civil war, being a lieutenant in the Ringgold Light Artillery (to which he belonged for nine years), his commission being dated Feb. 22, 1861. On May 9, 1861, he enlisted for two years in Company D, 4th N. Y. V. I., and was discharged May 5, 1863. He re-enlisted in December, 1863, at New York, as a private to serve three years in Company G, 5th N. Y. V. Artillery, and was transferred to Company A, Jan. 6, 1864. He was promoted to corporal Jan. 27, 1864, sergeant major July 10, 1864, and discharged Feb. 18, 1865, to accept the second lieutenancy. He was made captain May 25, 1865, at Harper's Ferry, Va. At the battle of Antietam a bullet passed through his hat, and grazed his skull, necessitating his removal to a hospital. The hat is still in the possession of the family at Bowers. He married Catherine Bower, daughter of Jonas Bower, and she still resides at the homestead at Bowers Station. He died Sept. 11, 1896. Their children were: J. Charles, of Baltimore, is an engineer on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; J. William A. resides at Topton; Harrison, m. to Clara Troutman, is engage in the music business at Delaware, Ohio; Louisa E. is the widow of Milton H. De Long. [Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p404]



Pedigree of Edward Capt KNOSKE
          /-----Johann Heinrich KNOSKE
 /-----Johann Rev KNOSKE
|         \-----Rosina TRAUTSCHEN
Edward Capt KNOSKE
|         /-----William KOCH
 \-----Elizabeth KOCH
          \-----Margaret NEUFANGER



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