Brief Life History of John F.
When John F. Knock was born on 13 July 1869, in Fulton, Whiteside, Illinois, United States, his father, Robert Bruce Knock, was 24 and his mother, Evelyn Elizabeth Hussey, was 19. He married Laura Etta Haas on 14 November 1892, in Douglas, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Bernadotte Township, Fulton, Illinois, United States in 1870 and Caney, Montgomery, Kansas, United States in 1880. He died on 29 September 1957, in Iola, Allen, Kansas, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Iola, Allen, Kansas, United States.
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- John F Knock, "Kansas State Census, 1925"
- John F Knock, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
- John F Knock, "Find A Grave Index"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
1892 · The Chicago Canal
The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
Name Meaning
German: northern variant of Knoche .
German: possibly a habitational name from Knock near Emden.
English (East Anglia and southeastern): from Middle English kno(c)k ‘hill, hillock’ (Old English cnocc). The name may be topographic, for someone who lived by a small hill, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Knock Farm in Stone cum Ebony (Kent) or Knock Hatch in Arlington (Sussex).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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