Butte County CA Archives Biographies.....Knowlton, Abner L. 1832 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

    ABNER L. KNOWLTON was born in Windsor, Hillsboro county, New Hampshire,
September 1, 1832, and was the son of Gideon Knowlton. He lived at Windsor until
twenty-two years of age. His early advantages for an education were very
limited, but, at the age of twenty-four, he went to the New Hampshire Conference
Seminary, supporting himself while there by sawing wood and teaching. He was
there when the war broke out, and joined the fourth New Hampshire infantry, and
served four years. His regiment was in Sherman's command at the capture of
Hilton Head, in South Carolina. He was in the expedition that captured
Fernandina, Florida, and was at the seige of Charleston, participating in the
operations of this division into the winter of 1863. From Charleston, his
regiment went to Virginia, under the command of Butler, and was at the battle of
Gloucester Point, at the occupation of Bermuda Hundred, and the engagement at
Drury's Bluff, called the Frog fight. The regiment was sent to join Grant's
forces at Cold Harbor, and took part in the battle of the Wilderness. From
there, his companions were thrown across James river in front of Petersburg,
where they assisted in the seige, and remained until the winter of 1864. Mr.
Knowlton was at the battle of the mine. In 1865, he was sent south, under
Butler, and was at the capture of Fort Fisher, and accompanied Terry on his
second expedition. His regiment joined Sherman on his march from Columbia to
Raleigh, being at the battle of Bentonville, in North Carolina. Mr. Knowlton was
discharged in the summer of 1865, at Raleigh, and went back home, having gone
into the service as private, and come back captain. He opened an office at
Concord as civil-engineer, and lived there four years. He came west in the
employ of the Northern Pacific railroad, as assistant engineer on the
preliminary survey between Olympia and Portland. He then settled in Walla Walla,
and served there as county surveyor for four years. He then came to Butte
county, and was elected county surveyor in 1875, after being in Chico six
months. He lost a re-election in 1877 by one vote, but obtained a re-election in
1879. Mr. Knowlton was married in 1866, at Concord, to Mrs. Lizzie E. Hoyt, of
Fisherville, New Hampshire.



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HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA,
IN TWO VOLUMES.

I.
HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM 1513 TO 1850.
BY FRANK T. GILBERT.

The Great Fur Companies and their Trapping Expeditions to California.
Settlement of the Sacramento Valley. 
The Discovery of Gold in California.
BY HARRY L. WELLS.

II.
HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY,
From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. 
BY HARRY L. WELLS AND W. L. CHAMBERS.

BOTH VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS AND PORTRAITS.
HARRY L. WELLS,
517 CLAY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO
1882.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by HARRY L. WELLS, in
the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

FRANCIS, VALENTINE & Co., Engravers & Printers
517 Clay St., San Francisco

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