Lake-Porter County IN Archives Biographies.....Knotts, Armanis F. 1860 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

ARMANIS F. KNOTTS.

    Armanis F. Knotts, mayor of Hammond and since 1888 continuously engaged in
law practice in this city, is an able, industrious and successful member of the
Lake county bar, and deserves all the more credit because he arrived at his
present prominent position by diligent application early and late from the days
of boyhood. He has spent nearly all his active career in northwestern Indiana,
and for a number of years was a successful school teacher, by which profession
he entered upon his broader field of activity in the law and public life. He is
one of the influential Republicans of Lake county, and to the social,
institutional, professional and political affairs of his community has given a
generous share of his time and effort.

    Mr. Knotts was born in Highland county, Ohio, February 29, 1860, a son of
Frank D. and Margaret (Bell) Knotts, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the
latter of Ohio. His mother was a daughter of an early settler and farmer of
Ohio, of Irish descent, and who reared a large family. On the paternal side the
family is of Holland Dutch stock, from early settlers in Maryland, and the
great-grandfather was a soldier in the Revolution. The grandfather, a soldier in
the war of 1812, moved to Ohio at an early day, and lived there till his death
at the age of seventy years, having reared a large family.

    Frank D. Knotts, the father of Mayor Knotts, has followed the occupations of
carpenter and farmer principally. When he was quite young he moved with his
parents to Ohio, and in 1868 came to Indiana, locating first in Tippecanoe
county, near Lafayette, and afterward at Medaryville, Pulaski county, where he
was engaged in farming, but now lives in the town. He is a Democrat in politics,
and has held various township offices. His first wife died in 1870, at the age
of twenty-nine years, and he married for his second wife Miss Jennie Yates, who
became the mother of two children: Nettie, the wife of Nandis Cox, of
Medaryville; and William, of Medaryville.

    Mayor Knotts was eight years old when he came with his parents to Indiana,
and he grew to manhood in Pulaski county, being reared on a farm and learning
its duties at an early age. He laid the foundation for his larger training while
a student in the district schools, and later attended the normal school at
Valparaiso. After leaving the home schools he had taught for some time in the
country schools and in Medaryville. He spent five years at Valparaiso, and
graduated in the classical course in 1883. He then taught two years at Ladoga,
being principal of the Central Indiana Normal and Business College. He then
returned to Valparaiso, where he took the law course and was graduated in 1887.
In 1888 he opened his office in Hammond, and has been successfully practicing in
this city ever since. He was elected county surveyor of Porter county while in
school in Valparaiso, and held the office eighteen months, resigning when he
came to Hammond. Since coming to Hammond he has been much interested in
Republican politics. He was elected and served one term in the state
legislature, from 1898. In May, 1902, he was elected mayor of Hammond, and has
given a very efficient administration of municipal affairs.

    Mr. Knotts resides at 8 Clinton street, where he built a comfortable home in
1892. He affiliates with Garfield Lodge No. 569, F. & A. M., with Hammond
Chapter No. 117, R. A. M., and with Hammond Commandery, K. T. His wife and the
children are members of the Catholic church. In 1884 he married Miss Mary
Hennessy, a daughter of Michael Hennessy. They have had four children: Anna
Frances, Eugenia, Leo and Marguerite. Leo died at the age of two years.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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