When William Gifford Knox was born on 16 December 1884, in Murphy, Josephine, Oregon, United States, his father, William Harrison Knox, was 33 and his mother, Margaret Ardella Brown, was 28. He lived in Seattle, King, Washington, United States in 1920 and Josephine, Josephine, Oregon, United States in 1950. He died on 8 September 1964, in Grants Pass, Josephine, Oregon, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Missouri Flat Cemetery, Applegate, Jackson, Oregon, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
On November 11, 1889, Washington Territory became Washington State the 42nd state to enter the Union. The state was named in honor of George Washington.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
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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