Book11 The trees of Michigan - 1870 the Knauss family settles in the wilderness of MichiganAmos and Mary Knauss with their son Edward Knauss (1876 TO 1952, GREAT-GRANDFATHER). When Edward was 20 years old, he married Mary C Long, age. In 1898 their first child Harold Forest Knauss (1898 TO 1983, GRANDFATHER), was born at their farm in Kalamazoo. Edward and Mary gave him the middle name of Forest so they could remember the trees of Michigan that once...