Brief Life History of Edwin O.
When Edwin O. Knight was born on 17 January 1858, in Sheridan Township, Carroll, Iowa, United States, his father, Allen Wiley Knight, was 32 and his mother, Mary H Jenkins, was 35. He married Maria Jane Mintun on 10 March 1878, in Raglan Township, Harrison, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Harrison, Iowa, United States in 1895 and Magnolia Township, Harrison, Iowa, United States in 1900. He died on 9 March 1934, in Missouri Valley, Harrison, Iowa, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Magnolia, Harrison, Iowa, United States.
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- Edwin Knight, "Iowa State Census, 1895"
- Legacy NFS Source: Edwin O. Knight - Published information: Obituary: birth-name: Edwin O. Knight
- Edwin Knight, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867
Historical Boundaries: 1867: Harrison, Iowa, United States
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English: status or occupational name from Middle English knight ‘retainer, attendant’ (Old English cniht ‘boy, youth, lad)’. The specialized feudal sense ‘a high-ranking tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier’ is not known to have ever given rise to the surname, although it is not out of the question that it may occasionally have been used as a nickname, perhaps for someone who played the part of an armed knight in a local pageant.
Irish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the knight’. See also McKnight .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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