Daniel Clark Knowles (1836 - 1913)

Descendant of New Jersey Pro #03 (Mercer) - John Knowles, Jr. (1750  - ??)

Daniel Clark Knowles, a Methodist clergyman, was born in Yardville, Mercer County New Jersey, January 4, 1836.  He was the son of Enoch Knowles (1804 - c 1870) and Alice Hughes.  He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1858.  During the Civil War he held the rank of Captain in Company D of the 48th New York Volunteers. 

Daniel married Lucia M. Barrows in 1863 and he was ordained to the ministry in 1864.  He was pastor of several churches in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire and was the Prohibition candidate for governor of New Hampshire in 1895.  He authored several books including "Chapel Talks to Young People" in 1909. 

Daniel and Lucia are in Essex Co., Massachusetts at the time of the 1880 Census and in Belknap Co., New Hampshire at the time of the 1900 Census.

Daniel died February 13, 1913.

Ellin J. (Toy) Knowles  (1834 - 1929)

Rev., Dr. Joseph H. Knowles
Descendant of New Jersey Pro #03 (Mercer) - John Knowles, Jr. (1750  - ??)

Ellin J. (Toy) Knowles, born October 21, 1834, in Camden, Camden Co., New Jersey, was the daughter of Isaiah Toy and Mary Anna Wallace.

Ellin was married to Rev., Dr. Joseph H. Knowles from 1856 until his death in 1898.  Rev. Knowles was the son of Enoch Knowles (1804 - c 1870) and Alice Hughes.

Ellin Knowles authored many books for children as well as two books on religious themes for adults.  She was renowned as a public speaker and was a member of the original committee called to organize the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in America.  She was a delegate to the World Ecumenical Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1910.

Mrs. Knowles died April 10, 1929.
 

Judge Hiram Knowles  (1834 - 1911)

Descendant of Massachusetts Pro #01 (Barnstable) - Richard Knowles (1614 - 1675)

Hiram Knowles was born in Hampden, Penobscot County, Maine, January 18,  1834.  His parents were Dr. Freeman Knowles (1807 - 1880) and Emily Day Smith.

After receiving his law degree from Harvard in 1860, he moved to Nevada in 1862 where he became the prosecuting attorney for Humboldt County followed by his appointment as a judge in 1864.   He moved to Montana in 1866 where he became an associate justice for the Supreme Court of Montana and a U.S. District Judge for Montana (1890-1904).  He was a Republican candidate for Congress 1n 1884, defeated by Hon. J. K. Toole.

Hiram Knowles left Maine for the mid-west with his parents c 1838, first to Illinois then locating in Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa.  In 1850, Hiram and his father made the perilous trip across the plains to California during the Gold Rush.  They remained at Cold Springs for a time, participating in the mining activities, after which they returned to Iowa.

Hiram was educated at Denmark (Iowa) Academy, public schools, Antioch (Ohio) College and Harvard. 

He was married to Mary C. Curtis in 1871 in Athens, Clark County, Missouri and he died on the train while returning home to Missoula, Montana from a trip to Los Angeles in 1911.

Judge Hiram Knowles was honored as an outstanding pioneer of Montana, a man of high integrity, who had come to his new home state when it was an undeveloped Territory, inhabited by savage tribes and buffaloes.  He conducted his own law practice; was identified with the Masonic Order in which he served as grandmaster in 1879;  member of the Ancient Order United Workmen.

Although he spent much of his time in Helena Montana, the family home was in Missoula.
 

Horace Greeley Knowles (1863 - 1913)
Descendant of Delaware Pro. #03 (Sussex) - William Knowles (1755 - 1825)

Horace Greeley Knowles, the son of Dr. Isaac H. D. Knowles (1835 - 1906) and Sarah Lavina Short, was born in Seaford, Sussex Co., Delaware, October 20 1863.

Horace received his education at Delaware College and married Edith Wallace April 20, 1897. 

He was the American Consul at Bordeaux, France, from 1889-1893. He remained in the diplomatic service of the U.S., holding posts in Romania, Bulgaria, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic.

His last position was as Minister of Protocol to Bolivia from 1910 until his death in 1913 in Philadelphia.
 

*  Who Was Who in America.  A component volume of
Who's Who in American History.  Volume 1, 1897-1942.
Chicago: A.N. Marquis Co., 1943