Brief Life History of John Robert
When John Robert Knight was born on 21 December 1865, in Doddridge, West Virginia, United States, his father, John A. Knight Jr., was 37 and his mother, Masa Davis Knight, was 37. He married Rosie Ellen Richards on 12 April 1888, in Calhoun, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Marion, West Virginia, United States for about 15 years and Nottingham Township, Harrison, Ohio, United States in 1940. He died on 22 April 1958, in Montana, Marion, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Marion, West Virginia, United States.
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- Robert Knight, "United States Census, 1900"
- Robert Knight, "West Virginia Births, 1853-1930"
- J R Knight, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
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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