Brief Life History of George Walter
When George Walter Knox was born on 15 December 1896, in Colfax, Whitman, Washington, United States, his father, John Thomas Knox, was 35 and his mother, Emerette Fincher, was 42. He lived in Whitman, Washington, Texas, United States in 1900 and Harper, Wahkiakum, Washington, United States in 1910. He died on 21 April 1914, in Conrad, Pondera, Montana, United States, at the age of 17.
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Sources (5)
- Walter Knox in household of Thomas Knox, "United States Census, 1900"
- Walter Knox, "Montana Death Index, 1860-2007"
- Walter Knox, "Montana, Pondera County Records, 1910-2012"
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World Events (8)
1897 · Seattle Grows Quickly
The Klondike gold rush started in 1896 in Canada, but by 1897 as miners started moving and following the gold it caused for Seattle to rapidly grow as more miners joined the search for gold.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English (Northumberland and Durham): from a genitive or plural form of Old English cnocc ‘round-topped hill’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a hilltop, or a habitational name from any of the places in Scotland and northern England named with this element, now spelled Knock, in particular one in Renfrewshire.
Scottish: habitational name from any of the places in Scotland named with Gaelic cnoc ‘hill’, for example Knock in Renfrewshire. It is not possibly to disentangle this from the surname derived from the English etymon mentioned in 1 above.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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