BIO:  KNOWLAND, Robert W., s/o William & Mary (Tencher) Knowland

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

KNOWLAND   TENCHER   HOLLINGSWORTH   TIMMS   SALISBURY   

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co.  1886

Knox County, Palmyra Twp., page 560

ROBERT W. KNOWLAND, farmer, is a son of William and Mary (Tencher) Knowland,
natives of the "Blue-grass State", and was born in Greene County, Ind., in
1827.  He remained there with his parents until thirteen years of age, when
he became a "bound boy" in Crawford County, Ill., until twenty-one years of
age.  He then came to Knox County, Ind., and remained with his brother in
Washington Township a number of years.  In the spring of 1849 he began 
farming for himself, and raised a good crop.  In 1851 he married to Eleanor
Hollingsworth, daughter of Peter and Sarah Hollingsworth, natives of Knox
County.  She died in 1855, having borne one child, James.  Our subject was
married in 1857 to Miss Mary Timms, daughter of William and Elizabeth
(Salisbury) Timms, natives of Lawrence County, Ill.  To them were born eleven
children:  Alvin L., William T., Robert L., Mary E., William T., Noah M.,
Maude L., Rachel T., Musa D., Ephraim H. and Arthur A.  Mr. and Mrs. Knowland
are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and he is one of the
ruling elders.  He became a member of the I.O.O.F., in 1868, of the Old Post 
Lodge in Vincennes.  He is a strong Republican, and was elected trustee of
Palmyra Township in 1877, and served faithfully four years.  He sold his
splendid farm of 115 acres and intends leaving for Hastings, Neb., in March,
1886.
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