James McKnight Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Smelser, Biographical Sketches, Page 1014

JAMES McKNIGHT, farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Lancaster; was born at Benton, La Fayette 
Co., Wis., Nov. 27, 1846; went to Kansas in 1872; remained there until 1874, 
engaged in farming; then returned to Iowa, and rented land; then returned to 
Wisconsin; bought and owns 80 acres of land (a part of the old homestead of his 
father).  He enlisted, in the year 1862, in Co. A, 33d W. V. I.; mustered out in 
August, 1865, at Vicksburg, Miss.  His wife, Linda Bronell, who was born in La 
Fayette Co., July 23, 1853; a daughter of Clinton and Cynthia Bronell; natives 
of New York.  They married in 1872; they have three children - Everett D., born 
in Kansas April 24, 1874; Wilber A., born in Iowa Sept. 24, 1876; Melvin J., 
born in Wisconsin Sept. 21, 1878.