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Knitter Families

August Julius Family Johann Family Konitz Military Service

August Julius Knitter’s Family immigrated to the United States and settled in the town of Wanatah, Indiana. In 1881 August and his daughter Emma traveled on the ship Leipzig from Bremen, Germany. Later his wife and other children followed. Leipzig August was born in 1850 in the small village of Niesewanz, which is very near the town of Konitz, West Prussia. Today both are located in Poland. August was the son of Johann Knitter and Caroline Strehlke who had six children. 1,575 people in Poland had the surname Knitter in 2014 Approximately 3,234 people have this surname Knitter comes from the Low German, “knüten”; to tie or knot The 1880-decade was the decade of heaviest German immigration, nearly 1.5 million Germans left their country to settle in the United States; about 250,000, the greatest number ever, arrived in 1882. Germans Boarding Ship