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| In 1843; he moved to Lowell, Massachusetts and became editor of the
Middlesex Standard [Liberty Party newspaper], later he became editor of
the Lowell Citizen and News. His interested in politics continues and Knapp
became Clerk of the Massachusetts State Senate in 1851. In 1854,
Chauncey Knapp, ran as an anti-slavery Free Soiler and was elected overwhelmingly
to Congress as a member of the American Party (the only major party with
an anti-slavery plank) to the Thirty-fourth Congress. Shorty after, the
Republication Party (the party of Abraham Lincoln) was formed with an anti-slavery
plank. Knapp left the American Party and joined the Republican Party and
was again overwhelmingly elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress 1855-1859.
During the heated slavery debates in Congress, Senator Charles Sumner of
Massachusetts was severely beaten by Congressmen Prescott Brooks of South
Carolina on May 22, 1856. In response, Congressmen Knapp delivered a speech
on the floor of the House that was absolutely stunning. In 1859,
Knapp left Congress and became editor of the Lowell Daily Citizen from
1859-1882. He is buried in the Lowell Cemetery. Knapp Avenue leading
from Rogers Street into the Lowell Cemetery is named for Congressman Chauncey
L. Knapp.
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CENTER FOR LOWELL HISTORY LOWELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY
PAGE 1-2 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS Page 1-2
May 28, 1879 – William Lloyd Garrison’s Funeral, Address by Wendell Phillips
PAGE 3 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS Page 3
April 1882 – Lowell Daily Citizen “Hon. Joseph Poland Retires”
PAGE 4-5 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS Page 4
March 29, 1882 – Lowell Daily Citizen “Announcement” Lowell Daily
and Weekly will be assumed
PAGE 6-7 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
undated – “Longfellow Gems – Words of Wisdom”
PAGE 8-9 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
undated – “Holmes to Longfellow – An Eloquent Tribute to the Dead Poet
Addresses” at the meeting
PAGE 10 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
May 11 – “To Major General Dix Regarding War Update”
PAGE 11-27 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS August 1, 1867 – American Citizen “Vacation Rambles and Notes of Travel” PAGE 28-29 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
undated – “Emerson Reminiscences”
PAGE 30-33 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS May 13, 1867 – “Jefferson Davis and the Proceedings at Richmond” PAGE 33-35 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS 1882 – New York “Webster and the Issues of 1850” PAGE 36 MANUSCRIPT October 1, 1856 – Vote at Concord; Nomination of two Parties PAGE 37-39 MANUSCRIPT/NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
undated – Vermont Watchman “The Notable Banquet”
PAGE 40 DOCUMENT/MANUSCRIPT
Chauncey L. Knapp, Editor, Lowell Citizen. Lowell, Massachusetts
PAGE 41 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS December 28, 1878 – Lowell Daily Citizen “Lowell Newspapers – Old Bound and Preserved” PAGE 42-47 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS July 1, 1875 – American Citizen “Press Excursion to Niagara and Back” PAGE 44 MAGAZINE CARTOON/ILLUSTRATION
Editorial Chair of “The New York Tribune” by Putnam’s Magazine Illustration
of Warrington,
PAGE 48-49 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
August 28, 1890 – “Letters from Pennsylvania by Simeon Burt”
PAGE 50-51 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
February 7, 1885 – Boston Journal “Past and Present 1852-1885 –
Are We A Nation?”
PAGE 52 ILLUSTRATION “Wisconsin Fish Hatchery” Fitchburg near Madison, Wisconsin PAGE 53 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
1884 – Boston Commonwealth “General Grant’s Health”
PAGE 54-55 ADVERTISEMENT/NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Advertisement – “A. Knapp and Sons…Lumber, Shingles…N.Y.”
PAGE 56 BROCHURE Turn On The Gas; or Democracy Illuminated PAGE 57 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
undated – Boston Herald “Chinese Bill; Need for Department of Agriculture”
PAGE 58 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS February 28, 1885 – Boston Journal “Twenty-Four Years in Power” PAGE 59 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS/SPEECH
undated – John A. Logan’s Paper
PAGE 60-61 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
1884 – “Wealthy Widows, Dead Millionaires’ Wives in New York Who Pay Taxes
but Cannot Vote”
PAGE 62-63 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
undated – “Passage of the Blair Educational Bill by the Senate”
PAGE 64-65 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
August 12, 1884 – “Benjamin F. Butler after Chicago”
PAGE 66-67 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
March 20, 1884 – “James H. Spalding, Manchester, NH”
PAGE 68-69 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
undated – “John A. Andrew, The Great War Governor of Massachusetts”
PAGE 70-72 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
undated – “Banquet” given to Judge Lowell, Judge Lowell’s Speech, Governor
Robinson,
PAGE 72-73 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
1875 – “Three Score and Ten Society” Stowe, Vermont
PAGE 74-75 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
1884 – “An Issue of the Canvass”
PAGE 76-77 PROGRAMME/STATEMENT Programme: Merchant’s Week Statement – A Brief Statement of the Unitarian Faith PAGE 78-79 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
undated – “Caledonia County, Fellow Apprentices, Oliver Johnson”
PAGE 80-81 CORRESPONDENCE/NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
May 28 – “General Bank’s Colleagues in Thirty Fourth Congress, New York”
PAGE 82 MANUSCRIPT May 23, 1856 – Note to Chauncey L. Knapp from Hon. Charles Sumner, Detroit, MI PAGE 83 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS/REMARKS
1854 – “Lowell Voting Polls”
PAGE 84-85 CORRESPONDENCE/NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
undated – “Bill Concerning Original Packages Debated”
PAGE 86 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
August 14, 1856 – Letter to Chauncey L. Knapp from Agent, Hamilton Print
Works regarding
PAGE 87 CORRESPONDENCE/NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
August 17, 1880 – “Nantucket” by Off Islander
PAGE 88-89 CORRESPONDENCE
September 25, 1857 – Letter to Chauncey L. Knapp from James B. Francis
PAGE 90 SKETCHES OF GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS (3) - 1886 PAGE 91 PROGRAMME November 29, 1875 – Programme: Life and Character of Henry Wilson PAGE 92-93 MANUSCRIPTS/PROGRAMMES
1856 – Manuscript: Mileage Lowell to Washington
PAGE 94-95 SKETCHES/WILL AND TESTAMENT
Sketch of Elam R. Jewett and his residence
PAGE 96 CORRESPONDENCE March 21, 1874 – Letter to Chauncey L. Knapp from E.R. Hoar, Washington, DC PAGE 97-98 MANUSCRIPT/NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS/RESOLVE
undated – “Frederick Douglass, A Unique Character”
PAGE 99 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
undated – “Grant’s Words”
PAGE 100-102 CORRESPONDENCE/NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
undated – “The Last Resort”
PAGE 103 ARTICLE/CORRESPONDENCE
“The Nonsense of It” by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
PAGE 104-105 CORRESPONDENCE/NEWSPAPER CLIPPING
December 24, 1890 – Vermont Watchman “Hon. E.P. Walton Dead”
PAGE 106-107 CORRESPONDENCE/ORATION/RESOLVES
October 1890 – Letter to Chauncey L. Knapp regarding attending a meeting
in Washington, DC
PAGE 108-109 POEM/RESOLVES
July 4, 1878 – Poem read at reunion of Massachusetts Press Association
PAGE 110-111 CORRESPONDENCE/NEWSPAPERCLIPPING/RESOLVES
undated – “Three Questions about Happiness”
PAGE 112-113 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS/ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS
undated – Obituary: Mrs. Annis Crawford Burnham
PAGE 114-115 MEMOROBILIA/NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
March 17, 1888 – “Description of Block of Model Tenement on Moody Street”
by Chauncey L. Knapp
PAGE 116-117 DISCOURSE/NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
1890 – Total Population of Massachusetts by Counties (towns and cities)
PAGE 118-119 CORRESPONDENCE July 26, 1836 – Letter to Chauncey L. Knapp from George F. Richardson PAGE 120-121 CORRESPONDENCE/NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
undated –Three Lowell Citizen Editors 1856-1885: J.A. Goodwin, Chauncey
L. Knapp, and
PAGE 122-123 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS/SPEECH
undated – Obituary: Elijah Carter
PAGE 124-125 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS January 10, 1887 – Biographical Sketch and Obituary: Elam R. Jewett PAGE 126-127 INVITATION/NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS/RESOLVES
undated – “General Grant’s Relics”
PAGE 128-129 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
undated – “Great War Governor’s Views”
PAGE 130-131 BLANK PAGES PAGE 132-135 NEWSPAPER CLIPPING/ ILLUSTRATIONS OF GENERALS
undated – “Saloons and hard Times”
PAGE 136-137 CORRESPONDENCE/NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
undated – “Journalistic Reminiscences” by Hon. Chauncey L. Knapp
PAGE 138-139 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS/ ILLUSTRATIONS OF GENERALS
undated – Woman Suffrage
PAGE 140-141 SPEECH July 12, 1856 – Speech by Hon. Chauncey L. Knapp on Assault on Senator Charles Sumner PAGE 142-143 CORRESPONDENCE/ ILLUSTRATIONS OF GENERALS
January 3, 1858 – Letter to Chauncey L. Knapp from Huntington
PAGE 144-146 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS/ ILLUSTRATIONS OF GENERALS
undated – Beecher On Grant, Memorial Service/Tremont Temple
PAGE 147 MANUSCRIPT Manuscript regarding votes PAGE 148-149 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS/ILLUSTRATIONS OF GENERALS
undated – Oliver Johnson 75th Birthday
PAGE 150-151 MANUSCRIPT/CALLING CARD
1854 – Informal Ballot, Second, and Final Ballot
PAGE 152 ILLUSTRATIONS OF GOVERNMENT SECRETARIES
Illustration: President Cleveland’s Cabinet: Thomas F. Bayard,
Secretary of State; Daniel Manning,
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April 10, 1855 – Letter to Chauncey L. Knapp from Senator Charles Sumner
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