HENRY
Knauer

HENRY KNAUER was born on March 22, 1895 to John and Augusta Knauer, both whom had been born in Germany. By the time the 1920 Census was taken, the Knauer family owned a home at 1327 Lansdowne Avenue. John Knauer and Henry Knauer were both working as shipyard carpenters at this point. Besides Henry Knauer there were four other children, Hilda, Edward, John, and Elsie.

Henry Knauer married shortly after the census was taken. A son was born to him and wife Minnie in February of 1923, named Henry E. Knauer. 

Henry Knauer became involved in local politics as a Republican. In May of 1934 he ran successfully for County Committeeman and for the nomination for freeholder from Camden's Thirteenth Ward. He supported David Baird Jr. against Albert S. Woodruff during the bitter struggle for control of Camden County's Republican Party in the May primary. Henry Knauer's close ties to David Baird Jr. may have in the long run hurt him politically in Camden, especially after the George Brunner's Democrat organization became ascendant in the city during the late 1930s. 

The 1947 Camden City Directory shows Henry Knauer living at 1674 Mount Ephraim Avenue, the bar that his brother Edward owned, known, appropriately enough, as Knauer's Cafe. Henry Knauer worked there as a bartender, as did younger brother John, who still resided at the Lansdowne Avenue address. 

By 1956 the Knauers had sold the bar. Henry Knauer had moved to Munn Lane in what was then Delaware Township (present-day Cherry Hill) NJ. Henry Knauer's resided there until he passed away in August of 1979.