Norfolk County MA Archives Biographies.....Knowlton, Stephen 1831 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ma/mafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 12, 2006, 1:28 am Author: E. O. Jameson (1886) REV. STEPHEN KNOWLTON. STEPHEN KNOWLTON, {Stephen, Smith, Jacob, Jacob, Thomas.) son of Stephen Smith and Sally (Atwood) Knowlton, was born June 20, 1831, in Stockbridge, Vt. He prepared for college in the academies of Randolph and Ludlow, Vt., and graduated in 1857 from Middlebury College, Vermont. After graduation he taught for five years the Young Ladies' Seminary, in Castleton, Vt., which has since become the Castleton Normal School. Mr. Knowlton graduated in 1865, from the Andover Theological Seminary, and was settled Nov. 2, 1865, as colleague pastor with the Rev. Jacob Ide, D. D., over the Second Church of Christ in Medway. Vid. THE CHURCHES. He resigned this pastorate Nov. 20, 1872, to accept a call to settle with the Congregational Church in New Haven, Vt., where he remained nine years. He was again installed in 1881 in Greensboro, Vt., where he is still laboring in the Gospel. The Rev. Mr. Knowlton married, Aug. 25, 1858, Frances L. Kent, daughter of the Rev. Cephas Henry and Mary Abbie (Clark) Kent. Their only child was Kent Knowlton, born Aug. 14, 1872. Additional Comments: From: HE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT PERSONS, AND The Genealogical Records OF MANY EARLY AND OTHER FAMILIES IN MEDWAY, MASS. 1713-1886. Illustrated WITH NUMEROUS STEEL AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS. BY E. O. JAMESON, THE AUTHOR OK "THE COGSWELLS IN AMERICA," "THE HISTORY OF MEDWAY, MASS." ETC. MILLIS, MASS. 1886. Copyright, 1886. E. O. JAMESON, MILLIS, MASS. All Rights Reserved. J. A. & R. A. REID, PRINTERS, PROVIDENCE, R. I. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ma/norfolk/bios/knowlton40gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb