Claude Roy Knickerbocker

He was in the newspaper business. He ran the Stanley Sun in Stanley North Dakota and The Shelby Promoter in Shelby Montana. He had three sons in World War 2. Snick (Kennedy), Lew, and Glenn. Snick and Lew were prisoners of war for years before they were liberated. Snick was MIA for a long time before he was found in a prison camp in Germany. When Claude Roy Knickerbocker was born on March 27, 1892, in Bloomer, Wisconsin, his father, Dexter, was 39 and his mother, Claressa, was 31. He had four sons and two daughters with Selma Nyre between 1916 and 1931. He died on March 11, 1964, in Anacortes, Washington, at the age of 71, and was buried in Shelby, Montana.