DANIEL C. KNOOP, proprietor of a grocery and bakery at Covington,, Miami County, Ohio, has been a resident of this city since 1900 and has built up a large patronage. He was born in Casstown, Miami County, May 29, 1871, and is a son of Samuel and Martha (Brelsford) Knoop. He comes of a prominent family of that vicinity, and his father is a retired merchant of Casstown.

Daniel C. Knoop was reared and educated in his native town, and when nineteen years of age went to Troy, where for nine years and three months he was in the employ of McCullough & Company. He then represented a grocery firm on the road for eighteen months, at the end of which time he established a grocery and bakery at Covington. He does his own baking and the trade he has built up is an enterprising and progressive man, of no mean business ability, and he occupies a place high in the esteem of his fellow citizens. Mr. Knoop was united in marriage with Miss Ruth Rench, a daughter of George Rench of Covington, and they have three children, Ralph Edgar, Mary Margaret, and Irene. Fraternally, he is a member of the Masonic Order and has attained the thirty-second degree.