Troy Times - Veteran - War of 1812

April 9, 1857　

KNOOP, DANIEL - Another Pioneer Gone - Died at his residence in Cass county, Indiana, on the 12th day of January last in the 80th year of his age, Daniel Knoop.　 He was a native of Cumberland Co., Penn., and while a youth he removed to the then far west.　 Early in the spring of 1797, he came to Cincinnati; and during the summer assisted in raising a crop of corn in Columbia, about 5 miles east of that place, and in the spring of 1798, he, together with his brothers, Jno. Knoop, Benj. Knoop, and Christopher Knoop, James Lennon and Henry Garrard, moved to Staunton and commenced the first settlement in Miami county, then the North Western Territory.　 He served in the war of 1812 for the protection of the frontiers against the Indians, with many of whom he was personally acquainted.　 (See Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio, pages 357 and 358.)　 He died as he lived, in peace with all mankind, having not an enemy on earth.