Cornelius James KNIBBS\Ruth Margaret SHAY

A sample of Cornelius' signature taken from his military registration card, 1917.
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See Cornelius' Military Registration Card from 1917

We can see from from his Military Registration Card that he was claiming exemption from draft on the grounds that he was supporting his mother and his wife, but I'm not sure if he was successful.

The Military Registration Card tells us that Cornelius was a Boilermaker working for the Oldman Boiler Company which I now see was situated at 32 Illinois Street, Erie County, Buffalo, NY. The building was erected in 1907 as the permanent location of the business which begun in 1863. It is associated with the growth of Buffalo as a national industrial centre and major Great Lakes port. In addition to its boiler repairs and manufacturing capabilities, Oldman also serviced lake vessels.
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We can see Cornelius at the 1920 US Census at Collins Town, Erie, New York. He was working and living in at the Gowanda State Homeopathic Hospital.
Cornelius J KNIBBS Employee 34 Pennsylvania Attendant

We can also see his wife Ruth who was living at Lynch Village, Howe, Forest County, Pennsylvania. She was lodging with a family whose name I couldn't read.
Ruth KNIBBS Boarder 24
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We can also see him in 1930, living at Buffalo, Erie, New York with a wife named Dorothy.
Cornelius J Knibbs Head 43 Pennsylvania Mechanic Iron Foundry
Dorothy Knibbs Wife 35 New York
Caroline Mesmer Mother-in-law 70 New York

It states that Caroline Mesmer was a widow, and that her father was from France.
It also states that Cornelius first married aged 34, Dorothy aged 26, and Caroline aged 18.

With regard to their ages at marriage, we know that Cornelius was married in 1915 to Ruth, so I presume the age given at the census was the age when he married his second wife.
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Cornelius is buried at Lakeside Memorial Cemetery, Hamburg, New York, USA, Block B - lot 642 -B- grave #3