Knickerbocker (surname)
Knickerbocker, also spelled Knikkerbakker, Knikkerbacker, and Knickerbacker, is a surname that dates back to the early settlers of New Netherland that was popularized by Washington Irving in 1809 when he published his satirical A History of New York under the pseudonym "Diedrich Knickerbocker". The name was also a term for Manhattan's aristocracy "in the early days"[1] and became a general term, now obsolete, for a New Yorker.
List of people with the surname
- David Buel Knickerbacker (1833–1894), 3rd Protestant Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Indiana
- Harmen Jansen Knickerbocker (c. 1650 – c. 1720), Dutch colonist in New Netherland (New York)
- Herman Knickerbocker (1779–1855), United States Representative
- Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker (1898–1949), American writer and journalist
References
- ^ Riis, Jacob (1890). "I. Genesis of the Tenement". How the Other Half Lives. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. (at Wikisource: How the Other Half Lives – Chapter I)
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