A Congregationalist clergyman and a representative to the Vermont Legislature 1818-1823.
Rev. Mason Knappen and family came to Richland in 1833, from Hinesburg, Vermont.
Died
At Richland, Kalamazoo County, on the 16th inst., Rev. Mason Knappen.
Mr. Knappen was born at Washington, in the State of Connecticut, A.D. 1781, and had been a Minister of the Gospel for more than fifty years. The early part of his ministerial labors was passed in the counties of Chittenden, Rutland and Addison, in the State of Vermont, where he preached with acceptance and success for more than thirty years. He was the settled pastor of the Congregation Church and society of the town of Sudbury, in the County of Rutland, thirteen years and of the adjoining town of Orwell nearly as long.
In the winter of 1853 he emigrated to Michigan with his family and settled on gull Prairie, here he remained to the time of his decease-laboring in that and then then new adjacent settlements, where his influence was always exerted on the side of right, and did much to lay the foundation of that reputation for the observance of religion and morality for which the people of the immediate vicinity are so justly distinguished. At one time he was the stated supply of the pulpit of the Congregational and Presbyterian Church and Society of this village. Kalamazoo Gazette May 1, 1857 page 2
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Rev. Mason Knappen and family came to Richland in 1833, from Hinesburg, Vermont.
Died
At Richland, Kalamazoo County, on the 16th inst., Rev. Mason Knappen.
Mr. Knappen was born at Washington, in the State of Connecticut, A.D. 1781, and had been a Minister of the Gospel for more than fifty years. The early part of his ministerial labors was passed in the counties of Chittenden, Rutland and Addison, in the State of Vermont, where he preached with acceptance and success for more than thirty years. He was the settled pastor of the Congregation Church and society of the town of Sudbury, in the County of Rutland, thirteen years and of the adjoining town of Orwell nearly as long.
In the winter of 1853 he emigrated to Michigan with his family and settled on gull Prairie, here he remained to the time of his decease-laboring in that and then then new adjacent settlements, where his influence was always exerted on the side of right, and did much to lay the foundation of that reputation for the observance of religion and morality for which the people of the immediate vicinity are so justly distinguished. At one time he was the stated supply of the pulpit of the Congregational and Presbyterian Church and Society of this village. Kalamazoo Gazette May 1, 1857 page 2
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A Congregationalist clergyman and a representative to the Vermont Legislature 1818-1823.
Rev. Mason Knappen and family came to Richland in 1833, from Hinesburg, Vermont.
Died
At Richland, Kalamazoo County, on the 16th inst., Rev. Mason Knappen.
Mr. Knappen was born at Washington, in the State of Connecticut, A.D. 1781, and had been a Minister of the Gospel for more than fifty years. The early part of his ministerial labors was passed in the counties of Chittenden, Rutland and Addison, in the State of Vermont, where he preached with acceptance and success for more than thirty years. He was the settled pastor of the Congregation Church and society of the town of Sudbury, in the County of Rutland, thirteen years and of the adjoining town of Orwell nearly as long.
In the winter of 1853 he emigrated to Michigan with his family and settled on gull Prairie, here he remained to the time of his decease-laboring in that and then then new adjacent settlements, where his influence was always exerted on the side of right, and did much to lay the foundation of that reputation for the observance of religion and morality for which the people of the immediate vicinity are so justly distinguished. At one time he was the stated supply of the pulpit of the Congregational and Presbyterian Church and Society of this village. Kalamazoo Gazette May 1, 1857 page 2
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Rev. Mason Knappen and family came to Richland in 1833, from Hinesburg, Vermont.
Died
At Richland, Kalamazoo County, on the 16th inst., Rev. Mason Knappen.
Mr. Knappen was born at Washington, in the State of Connecticut, A.D. 1781, and had been a Minister of the Gospel for more than fifty years. The early part of his ministerial labors was passed in the counties of Chittenden, Rutland and Addison, in the State of Vermont, where he preached with acceptance and success for more than thirty years. He was the settled pastor of the Congregation Church and society of the town of Sudbury, in the County of Rutland, thirteen years and of the adjoining town of Orwell nearly as long.
In the winter of 1853 he emigrated to Michigan with his family and settled on gull Prairie, here he remained to the time of his decease-laboring in that and then then new adjacent settlements, where his influence was always exerted on the side of right, and did much to lay the foundation of that reputation for the observance of religion and morality for which the people of the immediate vicinity are so justly distinguished. At one time he was the stated supply of the pulpit of the Congregational and Presbyterian Church and Society of this village. Kalamazoo Gazette May 1, 1857 page 2
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