When John Knight III was born on 17 December 1836, in Gisburn, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Knight II, was 23 and his mother, Mary Amelia Watson, was 18. He married Sarah Elizabeth Taylor on 11 December 1859, in Slaterville, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850. His occupation is listed as farmer and a stockholder of the slaterville creamery and the amalgamated sugar company in Slaterville, Weber, Utah, United States. He died on 7 December 1904, in Slaterville, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
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The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
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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