Brief Life History of Arthur Jesse
When Arthur Jesse Knox was born on 16 April 1916, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, his father, Herbert Winfield Knox, was 34 and his mother, Mary Blanchebell Prather, was 25. He married Irene Vergelin Johnson on 1 January 1940, in Princeton, Mille Lacs, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Robbinsdale, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States in 1930. He died on 3 June 2002, in Hopkins, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.
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Sources (14)
- Arthur J Knox, "United States 1950 Census"
- Arthur Jesse Knox, "Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002"
- Arthur in entry for Irene Vergelin Knox, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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Children (6)
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World Events (8)
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1931 · The Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Woman was the name given to the skeletal remains of a woman thought to be 8,000 years old found near Pelican Rapids. The bones were brought to the University of Minnesota for more study. Later, Dr. Albert Jenks identified them as the bones of a 15 or 16 year old woman. Scientists now recognize the girl as someone whose ancestors were Paleo-Indian and now her skeletal remains have been reburied in South Dakota, not available for further study.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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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