Marriage and Family
Belknap was married three times. The first was in 1854 to Cora LeRoy who died in 1862. Belknap remarried to Carita S. Tomlinson from Kentucky in January, 1869. Carita, however, died of tuberculosis shortly after childbirth in December, 1870. Belknap remarried a third and final time on December 11, 1873 to Amanda Tomlinson Bower, widow of John Bower and Carita's sister. Belknap was the father of Hugh R. Belknap, U.S. Representative from Illinois.
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