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The Knapp family in front of their home, the Farm House, on the campus of Iowa State College in about 1885. Seaman Knapp was a professor of practical and experimental agriculture. He had come with his family and household goods by train to Ames from New York in late February of 1880. His duties included managing the college's boarding department and supervising the college farm. Seaman and his wife Maria lived in the Farm House with their children until 1885. Seaman Knapp was selected by the college's board of trustees to serve a one-year term as presidentof the college beginning on December 1, 1883 which meant that during 1884 the Farm House served as the president's home. Seaman Knapp left Iowa State in late 1885 to accept a position in St. Charles, Louisiana. His son Herman, who was appointed to be suprvisor of the college farm, and his new wife, Mary W. McDonald Knapp, began their married life at the Farm House, in January of 1886. Pictured in this photograph, left to right, are: Maria (Mrs. Seaman) Knapp; daughter Helen Louise; son Arthur; Seaman Knapp; daughter Minnie; son Herman; and son Bradford. This photograph appears on p. 91 of Mary Atherly's history "Farm House; College Farm to University Museum," published in 1995 by Iowa State University Press. (Courtesy of Farm House Museum Archives)