publ. by the Lewis Publishing Company 1905
A
Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of Crawford County,
Kansas
page 328-340
JOHN R. KNOTT
John R. Knott, who
is well known in Crawford county as a prosperous and progressive farmer
and breeder of high-class Poland China hogs, resides on section 19,
Grant township, where he has had his home for thirty-five years. He is,
in fact, one of the pioneers of the county, and has seen the preairies
of this particualr section develop from wind-swept plains to a fruitful
and beautiful agricutltural community, with groves and farm houses,
waving grain fields, and thriving villages smiling with prosperity and
filling to overflowing the cornucopia of the industrious husbandman.
His life has been consonant with this place of habitation, and his ways
have been those of peace and good will to his neighbors, of contented
preformance of duty and the quiet and unalloyed enjoyment of the fruits
thereof, all of which has transpired to the betterment of himself and
family and the advancement of the welfare of his fellow citizens.
Mr. Knott was born in Monroe county, Missouri,
January 16, 1843, a son of Clement and Margaret (Thomas) Knott, who
were both born in Kentucky, whence they came to Missouri at an early
day. Clement Knott joined the California gold-seekeres in 1849, and
died on the Pacific slope in 1853, when forty-five years old. His wife
lived to the age of seventy-two years, and died in St. Paul Kansas, in
1876.
Mr. John R. Knott was reared in Missouri and had a
common school education. He was yet under age when, in 1861, he
enlisted to fight the battles of his country, in Company C. third
Missouri Infantry, with which he served until 1864, having been made a
prisoner of war at the battle of Pea Ridge. After leaving the army in
1864 he went to Montana, where he was engaged in mining for the
following four and a half years. He came to Crawford county, Kansas, in
December, 1869, and took up a claim of one hundred and sixty acres
which is a part of the farm of two hundred and forty acres which
comprises his present homestead. He has made all the improvements on
this place, and his farm is one of which he may well be proud.
Mr. Knott was married January 22, 1872, to Miss Mary
Ann Carico, a daughter of James Carico. Both her parnets are now
deceased. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Knott. Aloysius
is in South America studying for the priesthood; Clarence is also
preparing to be a priest, being a student in Kentucky; Legora is at
home; Beatrice is a sister of charity at Nazareth, Kentucky; James Mark
is a miner at Chicopee, Kansas; and George A. is also at Chicopee. The
family are all members of the Catholic church at Greenbush. Mr. Knott
affiliates with Lodge No. 1, A. H. T. A. he served as justice of the
peace for several years, and his political belief is socialism.
. AKA Aloysius Ignatius Knott