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ELLERY F. KNOWLES
E. F. KNOWLES, one of the
corps of attaches connected with the administration of affairs at the State
Hospital for the Insane, Stockton, is a native of Maine, born at Harmony,
Somerset County, on the 6th day of November, 1833, his parents being
C. F. and Mary (Spurr) Knowles.
He was reared at his native town until he had reached his seventeenth year, and then removed to Skowhegan, Maine, and learned the moulder’s trade. In the spring of 1854 he went to Boston, where he pursued his trade with S. S. Rowe and I. M. Pike about eight or nine years. He then went to the Norway Iron Works (Naylor & Co.), South Boston, and was foreman for them all of the time until 1882, when he removed to Dakota, and in 1883 came to California, locating in Stockton. In March, 1889, he assumed his present duties as an officer at the Hospital for the Insane.
Mr. Knowles was married at Boston in 1862,
to Mrs. Esther Young, a native of Pittston, Maine.
Mr. Knowles has been for many years a
member of the Masonic order, and yet affiliates with Gate of the Temple Lodge,
South Boston. He is Past Guard of Charity Lodge, I. O. O. F., and is Past
District Deputy of District No. 7, California, having held the deputyship in
1884-’85.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 401-402. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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