Francis Bellows Knapp of the class of '43, died at his home in Plymouth, Mass., last Wednesday, aged 75 years.
Mr. Knapp was born in Jamaica Plain in 1820, and lived his early life in Walpole, N. H. He graduated from Harvard in 1843, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1847. He was in the same class with his brother, the late Rev. Frederick Newman Knapp.
Mr. Knapp was an accomplished classical scholar, and was familiar with Spanish and especially with the antique Norse languages. He translated an important and bulky volume on Icelandic law.
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