Biographical Sketch of Dr. Charles F. Knight, St. Joseph, Buchanan 
County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Dr. Charles F. Knight was born in Frederick County, Virginia, November
14, 1829.  He attended school at the Greenway Court Academy and also 
the Winchester Academy, and read medicine with Dr. Hugh H. Maguire, of
Winchester, Virginia, and graduated, in 1852, at the Winchester Medical
College.  He practiced three years at White Post, Clark County, Vir-
ginia, and then, in 1835, came to St. Joseph, Missouri, where he has
been actively engaged in the duties of his profession.  He has been 
appointed health officer four terms, and was for a number of years the
local surgeon for the Hannibal Railroad.  He took a very active part 
in establishing the Hospital Medical College and was elected President
of its faculty and one of its trustees; also professor of obstetrics
and diseases of women and children.  He has been twice married, first
to Miss Mattie Keyes, in 1861.  She died in four months.  In 1864, he
married Miss Annie M. Keyes, sister of his first wife.  They have six
children living, five sons and one daughter.  Among the many physicians
in the city, few rank higher than Dr. Knight.  He is one of the oldest
of the regular physicians and has always taken a leading position as a
surgeon and practitioner.

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