ALBERT W. KNAUSS, son of Aquila, is a plumber and gas fitter at Allentown. He was born at Emaus, Oct. 26, 1861. At a suitable age he learned the painting and paper hanging trade, following it for eleven years at Macungie. For four years of this time, he had associated with him as a partner, Victor Moyer, under the firm name of Knauss and Moyer. At the age of twenty-two years, he learned the trade of machinist and was employed at the Macungie furnace for a time, and later worked for the Ebbecke Hardware Company, for William Douglass and also for George Knauss, all of Allentown. He was employed for one year by the Composite Medal Company at Catasauqua. Afterward, Mr. Knauss had charge of the construction of the Griesemer Fiber Works, at Allentown, which continued for a period of one year and afforded employment to twenty men. Mr. Knauss made the first fibre bucket machine in the above establishment.

In the year 1903, he engaged in the present business in which he employs six men, doing all kinds of plumbing, gas fitting and general repair work.

He and family are members of the St. Luke's Lutheran church. Socially he is a member of these lodges: Friendly Lodge, I. O. O. F., since 1885; also of the Odd Fellows Encampment, both of Macungie; the Knights of Friendship, and the Knights of the Mystic Chain. Politically Mr. Knauss is a member of the Progressive party. In 1882 he married Tevillia Kressly, a daughter of Levi and Amanda (Sherer) Kressly.