Bio:  Reuben H. Knighton, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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Reuben H. Knighton has been engaged in merchandising at Langston, La., since
February, 1890, and although he is young in years, he has in this short time
built up a paying trade.  His birth occurred in this parish in 1866, to Joseph
O. Knighton and wife, the former being born in Mississippi about 1835.  To
them five children were born, their names being: Reuben H., Annie E. (wife of
Len Langton, of Langston), Joseph E., James B., Virginia and Dan W.  Reuben H.
Knighton grew to maturity in Claiborne Parish, La., and is a self-educated
young man.  Although he was reared to the occupation of planting, he gave up
this calling, and at the above-mentioned date turned his attention to
merchandising, and by honesty, sincerity of purpose and a desire to please his
patrons, he is doing a prosperous business.  He comes of good old Jacksonian
Democratic stock, and at all times supports that party and the men which it
puts forward for office.  He is in every respect a worthy young gentleman, and
is an earnest member of the Missionary Baptist Church.  Len Langton, his
brother-in-law, was born in Ouachita County, Ark., in April, 1861, a son of
Moses G. W. Langton, who was born in Georgia in 1821, his father, who also
bore the name of Moses, being an Englishman.  The latter was a veteran in the
Revolutionary War, and came to this country with three brothers and aided the
cause of the colonists.  The male members of the family have at all times been
traders and merchants up to the present, and this occupation now receives the
attention of Len Langton, who is associated with Mr. Knighton in business.  He
was married in 1887 to Miss Annie E. Knighton, by whom he has two children:
Lonny and an infant.  The former died in infancy.

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