Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Knox, Eldon Vincent 1885 - 
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Author: Ed Blair

  Eldon Vincent Knox, chief of the Olathe fire department, is a native son of 
Johnson county. He was born in Olathe, December 2, 1885, and is a son of 
William A. and Eliza (Orr) Knox, both natives of Ohio, the former born in 1853 
and the latter in 1855. They were married in Illinois and are the parents of 
six children, five of whom are living, as follows: Maud, married W. G. Tainter 
and resides at Olathe; Gertrude, married W. B. Rebsamen and resides in Olathe; 
Edna, married Will Sutton, Kansas City, Mo.; Marie, married Guy Johnson, a 
farmer north of Olathe, and Eldon Vincent, whose name introduces this review. 
Eldon Vincent Knox attended the public schools in Olathe and Kansas City, Mo., 
and worked at various occupations until 1909 when he came to Olathe and 
entered the employ of Hodges Brothers, where he remained until October, 1912, 
when he became chief of the Olathe fire department, and has held that position 
to the present time. The Olathe fire department is unusual in its efficiency 
for a town the size of Olathe. They have a high-power automobile hose-truck, 
which is also equipped with a modern fire-extinguisher and the organization is 
such, that they practically have ten firemen on duty. Added to this equipment 
and arrangement Olathe has a water system with an ample supply of water with 
high pressure which gives to Olathe, perhaps, the best fire protection in the 
State of Kansas. Mr. Knox was married at Leavenworth, Kan., September 11, 
1911, to Miss Carrie Alice Petry. She was a native of Osceola, Mo., born 
December 2, 1889, and died February 2, 1915, leaving one child, Doris Neoma, 
born July 22, 1912.

  Mr. Knox is a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows, the Kansas Fraternal Citizens and the Masonic lodge. He has 
been interested in fire protection since his boyhood and has made a careful 
study of fire-fighting and fire-prevention in Kansas City and elsewhere, and 
is especially well equipped in theory and experience for the position which he 
holds.


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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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