Fred kniffen biography

Fred Bowerman Kniffen (January 18, 1900 – May 19, 1993) was an American geographer and distinguished professor in the Department of Geography and.
Fred Bowerman Kniffen was an American geographer and distinguished professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University for over 64 years.
Fred B. Kniffen, professor of geography and anthropology, retired from Louisiana State in 1970, after a career that spanned forty-one years.

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Fred Bowerman Kniffen (1900-1993)

z zyxwvu In Memoriam Fred Bowerman Kniffen, 1900-1 993 H. Jesse Walker and Miles E. Richardson Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University F red Bowerman Kniffen died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on May 19, 1993. He is survived by his wife, three sons and a daughter, five grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. He was 93 years old, having been born in Britton, Lenawee County, Michigan, on January 18, 1900. All of Kniffen’s ancestors were English. They had come to New England in the 16OOs, but one side, with deep Royalist sympathies, moved to Canada during the Revolutionary War, while the other side moved westward to New York. With the passage of time, one member of the Canadian branch moved back to what by that time had become the United States, and settled in Michigan. In the meantime, a member of the New York branch also moved to Michigan, where he bought a large farm at a bargain price; it was reputed to be plagued with chills, fever, and ague. It was on this farm that Fred Kniffen’s father was born. It was 1849, th

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I House

1870-1915

One of the earliest house types found in Washington State is the I-House. The term "I-House" was coined by cultural geographer Fred Kniffen, who identified and analyzed the type in his 1936 study of Louisiana house types. He referred to it as the "I" because of its common occurrence in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa, all states beginning with the capital "I." Kniffen explained that usage of the new term did not imply that this house type originated in, or was restricted to, those three states.

The I-House evolved from the English, one-room house with an end chimney. The addition of a second story onto the basic floor plan of the hall-and-parlor house reflected the growing prosperity of an agrarian economy. It is little wonder that the I-House is the predominant housing type in rural areas across the country.

Despite the diversity of floor plans utilized in the I-House, its basic form is constant. The house is two story, one room deep and at least two rooms wide with a side facing gable roof. Typically the faç

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I was raised on a farm near Clyde, Texas and when we had an exceptionally good crop, we announced our success using the expression “High Cotton”.

As I reflect upon my life, I can proudly say that I’ve lived most of it in High Cotton. My dad was a farmer, but he was also the school bus driver. I rode the bus and attended school in Clyde. The school had one tennis court and when you reached the 5th grade you were allowed to play tennis on it during recess. This is where I found my love for the game and my competitive drive. We all ran to the court at recess, and the first two kids to get there got to play one game. The winner stayed and the loser went to the end of the line. Winning is a lot more fun!

My mother ordered me a tennis racket from the Sears & Roebuck catalog. It had silk strings, and when I wore out the strings, my mother would restring the racket by hand.

Sometimes the superintendent would come to the classroom to get me out of class so I could hit with the older kids. Even more incentive to work hard at tennis!

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