Kneeland, Samuel – Knowles, James Davis
Kneeland, Samuel
naturalist, surgeon, author, was born Aug. 1, 1821, in Boston, Mass. He was a naturalist and surgeon of Boston, and the author of Science and Mechanism; An American in Iceland; The Wonders of the Yo Semite; and Volcanoes and Earthquakes. He died in 1888.
Kneeland, Stillman Foster
lawyer, artist, author, was born May 17, 1845, in Quebec. In 1872 he moved to New York, and he now occupies the first rank among commercial lawyers. He is the author of a Treatise on Commercial Law; and past vice-president of the department of painting of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.
Knickerbocker, David Buel
P.
E. bishop, was born Feb. 24, 1833, in Schaghticoke, N. Y. Having been elected the third bishop of Indiana, he was consecrated at St. Mark's, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1883.
Knickerbocker, Herman
lawyer, congressman, was born July 27, 1782, in Albany, N. Y. He was a member of congress from 1809 to 1811, as a federalist, but during President Jackson's administration became a democrat. He died Jan. 30, 1855, in Williamsburg, N. Y.
Knight, Cyrus Frederic
P. E. bishop, author, was born March 28, 1831, in Marblehead, Mass. He was elected bishop of Milwaukee on Dec. 13, 1888. He has published occasional sermons and Changes in the Communion Office (New York).
Knight, Daniel Ridgeway
artist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa. He studied in the Academy of Fine Arts of his native city, and subsequently in Paris. Since 1874 he has resided in Poissy, France, engaged in painting pictures of peasant life, all his work being done in the open air. He has been a regular exhibitor at the Paris salon; has received a gold medal from that institution; a medal from the universal exhibition of Paris; the decoration of the cross of the Legion of Honor; gold medal at Munich; gold medal of honor from Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts; and gold medal from Antwerp exhibition. His principal pictures owned by the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts are Calling the Ferryman; Un Devil; Printemps; and one of his famous paintings is The Shepherd and His Friends, owned by the Lighton gallery of Milwaukee, Wis.
Knight, Edward Colling
merchant, railroad president, was born Dec. 8, 1813, near Camden, N. J. He was for twenty years president of the North Pennsylvania railroad. He died in 1892 in Philadelphia.
Knight, Edward Henry
author, was born June 1, 1824, in England. He was an English writer who settled in the United States in 1845, and was long connected with the patent office in Washington. He was the author of American Mechanical Dictionary; and New Mechanical Dictionary. He died Jan. 22, 1883, in Bellefontaine, Ohio.
Knight, Frederick
poet, was born Oct. 9, 1791, in Hampton, N. H. He taught in Penobscot, Me., and Marblehead, Mass.
He then returned to Rowley, where he passed his life, occupying himself in composition. A memorial of his life, with his poems, was published, entitled Thorn Cottage. He died Nov. 29, 1849, in Rowley, Mass.
Knight, James
physician, author, was born Feb. 14, 1810, in Taneytown, Md.
He was a physician of New York city, and the author of Improvement of Health by Natural Means; Orthopædia; and Static Electricity as a Therapeutic Agent. He died Oct. 24, 1887, in New York city.
Knight, Jonathan
educator, surveyor, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 22, 1787, in Bucks county, Pa.
He served three years as county commissioner; and in 1827 was appointed a commissioner to extend the national road from Wheeling through Ohio and Indiana to the eastern line of Illinois. In 1822 he was elected to the legislature and served six years. In 1854 he was elected a representative in the thirty-fourth congress from Pennsylvania. He died Nov. 22, 1858, in Washington county, Pa.
Knight, Leona Annie
poet, was born April 30, 1859, in Ascension parish, La. She is a writer of Gibson City, La.; and the author of two volumes of poems, entitled Gems of Thought; and Ferns of Fancy.
Knight, Nehemiah
farmer, congressman, was born in Rhode Island. He was a representative in congress from 1803 to 1808.
Knight, Nehemiah Rice
banker, state legislator, governor, United States senator, was born Dec. 31, 1780, in Cranston, R. I. He was elected to the Rhode Island state legislature; and was also for many years president of the Roger Williams bank. He was elected governor of Rhode Island in 1817, and re-elected in 1819 and 1820. He was a senator in congress from 1821 to 1841. He died April 19, 1854, in Providence, R. I.
Knight, Sarah Kemble
educator, author, was born April 19, 1666, in Boston, Mass. She was a teacher of Boston among whose pupils was Benjamin Franklin.
Her Narrative of a Journey from Boston to New York in 1704 is a valuable historical record of contemporary manners and customs written in a graphic, entertaining style. She died Dec. 25, 1727, in Norwalk, Conn.
Knighton, Frederick
educator, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 2, 1812, in England. During the civil war he served as chaplain of the eleventh regiment of New Jersey. He was the author of several books on education, entitled Primary Grammar; and Outlines of History. He died Sept. 9, 1888.
Knipe, Joseph Farmer
soldier, was born Nov. 30, 1823, in Mount Joy, Pa.
In 1861 he organized the forty-sixth Pennsylvania regiment, and was commissioned its colonel; and was promoted to brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862. He was mustered out of service in September, 1865, and is now superintendent of one of the departments in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Knortz, Karl
author, was born Aug. 28, 1841, in Prussia. He is a German writer who came to the United States in 1863, and settled in New York city. He is the author of Marchen und Sagen der nordamerikanische Indianer; Amerikanische Skizzen; An American Shakespeare Bibliography; Humorische Gedichte; Longfellow: eine literarhistorische Studie; Aus der Wigwam; Kapital und Arbeit in Amerika; Aus der transatlantischen Gesellschaft; Staat und Kirche in Amerika; Shakespeare in Amerika; Amerikanische Lebensbilder; and Brook Farm and Margaret Fuller.
Knott, a. Leo
educator, lawyer, state legislator, was born Aug. 29, 1830, near Lebanon, Ky. He served twelve years as prosecuting attorney of the city of Baltimore; and in 1868 was elected a representative in the Maryland legislature. In 1885 he was appointed second assistant postmaster-general.
Knott, James Proctor
lawyer, state legislator, governor, congressman, was born Aug. 29, 1830, near Lebanon, Ky. He moved to Missouri in 1850; was elected to the state legislature in 1858; and in 1860 was elected attorney-general of the state. In 1867 he was elected a representative from Kentucky to the fortieth congress. He was re-elected to the forty-first, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, fortysixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat. In 1883 he was elected governor of Kentucky for a term of four years.
Knowles, Edward Randall
priest, author, was born Jan. 10, 1861, in North Providence, R. I. He received his education at the Princeton university, from which institution he received the degree of A. B.; and subsequently the honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the West Virginia college. He is an orthodox catholic priest, and the founder of a Progressive Roman catholic church. His church will be a distinctively American church, and as such it will be progressive and aggressive; will be subject to no foreign domination; and will be a part of and in full sympathy with the best aspirations of the public. He is a fluent and forcible writer, and is fully capable to carry out successfully his mission.
Knowles, Frederic Lawrence
educator littérateur, author, was born in 1869, in Massachusetts. He is a littérateur and educator of Tilton, N. H. He has published Practical Hints for Young Readers, Writers, and Book Buyers; and edited Cap and Gown, a collection of college verse; and The Golden Treasury of American Songs.
Knowles, Freeman
soldier, lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Oct. 10, 1846, in Harmony, Maine. He enlisted in the sixteenth Maine regiment in 1862, and served three years in the army of the Potomac. In 1886 he moved to Nebraska, and began the publication of the Ceresco Times. He moved to the Black Hills in 1888, and began the publication of the Meade County Times at Tilford; and subsequently he moved his plant to Deadwood, and began the publication of the Evening Independent, a daily paper. He was elected in the state at large to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Knowles, Hiram
lawyer, jurist, was born in Maine. He moved to Iowa, from which state he was in 1872 appointed an associate justice of the supreme court for the territory of Montana.
Knowles, James Davis
clergyman, author, was born in July, 1798, in Providence, R. I. Besides addresses he published Memoir of Mrs. Ann H. Judson; and Memoir of Roger Williams, the Founder of the State of Rhode Island. He died May 9, 1838, in Newton Centre, Mass.