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Knaur's Grocery

Abraham Lincoln Knaur was another son of George E. Knaur Sr. Before 1900, he lived with his parents on West Bond Street beyond Denison's city limits. He first appears in the Denison City Directory in 1896 as proprietor of The Cash Grocery at 429 West Main Street.


Abraham Lincoln Knaur

In 1899, Abraham married a teacher, Ireline Walker (1864–1922). She was the sister of Dr. H. T. Walker, dentist, and aunt of Mildred Walker, longtime teacher at Denison High School. She lived with them at 912 West Gandy. Abraham and Ireline lived next door at 910 West Gandy.

By 1901, he had A. L. Knaur Groceries at 316 West Main Street. His younger brother, George Ernest "Ernie" Knaur Jr., was working as a clerk in the store.

By 1905, the store, still at 316 West Main, had morphed into Knaur-Brown Grocery Company, as William E. Brown became Abraham's partner. George Ernest was living at 1331 West Gandy, with no mention of his occupation.

"A. L. Knaur's Grocery
316 Main Street."
Robinson, Frank M. comp. Industrial Denison. [N.p.] : Means-Moore Co., [ca. 1909]. Page 90

In 1911, he had his own grocery store at 1000 West Crawford. George Ernest Knaur and wife, Lillie Beatrice Shannon Knaur (1873–1954), lived nearby at 914 West Crawford.

By 1911, Knaur-Brown Grocery Company, still at 316 West Main, was changing. Abraham was president, brother Schuyler C. Knaur had come on as vice-president, and William E. Brown was secretary-treasurer.

Then, in 1912, Abraham and Ireline moved to Dallas. The store became William E. Brown, Grocer. He and wife Lillian D. Brown lived at 1208 West Sears.

Abraham's brother, George Ernest Knaur, continued in the grocery business in Denison, in 1915 having moved across the street to 931 West Crawford. He passed away in 1916. His wife Lillie ran the business herself for a while, then retired and made her home at the store's location until the end of her long life in 1954.

In Dallas, Abraham joined W. H. Potts in the leather business. At his death in 1930, he was vice president of the Potts-Knaur Leather Company and the Gripper Manufacturing Company.

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