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 Harper, Wahkiakum, Washington, United States in 1910 and Harper, Kitsap, Washington, United States in 1910. He died on 21 April 1914, in Conrad, Pondera, Montana, United States, at the age of 17, and was buried in Colfax, Whitman, Washington, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries 1899: Kitsap, Washington, United States
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
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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