KNIGHT, Philip, Manchester, ENG., then St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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PHILIP KNIGHT, WASHINGTON.--Philip Knight, superintendent of the Courtableau
River Cotton Mills, limited, was born in Manchester, England.  He is the son
of Philip Knight and Jane Knight, both of whom are natives of England.  His
father was an extensive cotton manufacturer of Manchester and Leeds.  He
removed to the United States in the year 1860, where he died in 1872.  Young
Philip was reared and educated in the schools of Accrington, England.  At the
age of fifteen years he became an apprentice in the cotton machinery works of
the noted firm of Howard & Boullough, Accrington.  Here he remained several
years after his apprenticeship had been served.  From the year 1878 to 1887 he
represented this firm in the United States.  In 1888 he accepted a position as
superintendent of the Orleans Cotton Rope Manufacturing Company of New
Orleans, Louisiana.  In 1889 he resigned this position to accept the one which
he now holds.  He is also one of the chief stock holders in the concern of
which he is the superintendent.  The factory, which is in course of
construction, is to be quite extensive and is to be built on English
principles.  It will be fitted up with the best machinery that England and
America can supply.  The capital invested is about $25,000.  The company
proposes to have the mill in operation by April 1, 1891.  This enterprise
bespeaks the business qualifications prominent in Mr. Knight.  He has traveled
over the greater portion of the United States, and has been in active business
in many sections; but he is so favorably impressed with Washington that it is
his intention to make this his permanent home.  Though an Englishman by birth,
reared and educated in England, he is a thorough American in his views, and is
one of the leading citizens of the section in which he has cast his lot.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 53.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.