W. B. Belknap
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| Born | Brimfield, Massachusetts |
| Died | Jefferson County, Kentucky |
| Residence | Louisville, Kentucky |
| Occupation | Founding owner, Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company |
| Home town | Louisville, Kentucky |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Richardson |
| Children | Frances Belknap, Caroline Belknap, Lucy Belknap, William Richardson Belknap and Morris Burke Belknap |
| Parent(s) | Morris Burke Belknap, the elder (1780–1877) and Phoebe Locke Thompson (1788–1873). |
W. B. Belknap, also known as William Burke Belknap (the elder) (1811–1889), not to be confused with his grandson William Burke Belknap (the younger) (1885–1965) or great-grandson William Burke Belknap, Jr. (1893–1952), was the founder of W .B. Belknap and Company, an early iron and nail business at Third and Main Street in downtown Louisville, Kentucky which evolved by 1840 into the mammoth Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company. He was born in Brimfield, Massachusetts, where he spent his early years helping his father Morris Burke Belknap (the elder) (1780–1877) in an iron furnace foundry business.
W. B. traveled to Pittsburgh, East Tennessee, St. Louis, and Cincinnati before settling his hardware business on the banks of the Ohio River in Louisville. He became a prominent Kentucky citizen and businessman who hosted Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman in his home during the American Civil War.
William Burke Belknap, the elder, was the oldest of six children and the only son of Morris Burke Belknap (the elder), and Phoebe Locke Thompson (1788–1873). In 1843 he married Mary Richardson, daughter of William Richardson, President of the North Kentucky Bank. He was the father of three daughters, Frances "Fanny," Caroline, and Lucy, and of two sons, William Richardson Belknap and Morris Burke Belknap (the younger). His son Morris was also known as Colonel Morris Burke Belknap and married Lily Buckner (1858 -1893), the granddaughter of Simon Bolivar Buckner, the 30th Governor of Kentucky. He was the grandfather of Eleanor Silliman Belknap Humphrey.
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