Benjamin Knower (1775 Roxbury, now a borough of Boston, Massachusetts – August 23, 1839 Watervliet, Albany County, New York) was an American merchant, banker and politician.
Local lore had it that the hats were made waterproof by immersion in the Bozenkill, a stream behind a mansion in Knowersville, a village of Guilderland.
Knower was a presidential elector in 1820, voting for James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins.
"[1] On June 21, 1800, he married Sarah Van Kleek (1779–1833) at the Dutch Reformed Church in Poughkeepsie, New York.
His home at Guilderland, New York known as the Knower House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.