BIOGRAPHIES:  Henry KNIGHT, Arkansaw, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 19 November 2004
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Henry Knight, farmer, P. O. Arkansaw, Pepin county, was born at Scio,
N. Y.  He received a good common school education, and was married July
4, 1860, to Orpha A. Luther, who has borne him six children.  The
eldest, Charles A., was married December 25, 1886, to Maud Baxter, and
has two children:  Ina and Orla.  The second son, James, was married
July 9, 1891, to Ella Doughty, and the others, Nellie, John, Ernest and
Jesse, live at home.  Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Knight
came to Eau Claire, and in 1869 to Waterville, where Mr. Knight
purchased his present farm, then a wilderness.  He was obliged to clear
a road through the woods for about a mile to reach his new home, and
since coming here has often heard the young bears crying in the woods
near his cabin.  He now has a well-improved farm, and has begun
breeding Jersey cattle.  He has been assistant secretary of the Pepin
County Agricultural society since its formation, and is also a member
of the State Agricultural society.  Politically he is a prohibitionist
and has served the town as clerk, assessor, chairman of the board and
justice of the peace.  For over thirty years he has been a member of
the Methodist church.  He also belongs to the I. O. G. T.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 760.


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