Person:Allen Knight (31)

BIOGRAPHY: Allen Wheaton Knight

 Birth:   5 August 1821-- Providence, Providence, RI 
 Death:  18 February 1860 -- Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI 
 Spouse:  Elizabeth Brayton Knight 
 Parents: Allen Ray Knight  Julia 

BIOGRAPHY: Sheboygan County, Wisconsin Genealogy & History http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sheboygan/ History of Sheboygan County Two years later, in 1842, Mr. George C. Cole came to Sheboygan, and enumerates the following persons as then residents in the county; in Sheboygan and along the lake in this town, Capt. N. W. Brooks, wife and girl, Stephen Wolverton, wife, son and daughter, Joshua Brown and wife, John Glass and wife, Don Fairchild, David Wilson and family, Alvah Rublee and family, David Evans and wife, now of Oshkosh, Hiram G. D. Squires, William Ashby and wife, Aaron Ritter and family (stayed only a few months), A. Farrow, Wentworth Barber. At the Dye settlement, Asahel G. Dye and family, the Widow Farmin and son Benjamin, Newell Upham and wife, Chauncey Hall and family, Wendell Hoffman and wife, Elizabeth Cady, spinster, and brother Edward. At Gibbsville, John D. Gibbs and family, James H. Gibbs and wife, Benjamin L. Gibbs and wife, John Johnson, wife, sons George, Michael, Robert, John and William, and daughters Ann and Maria, Peter Palmer and wife, William Palmer, Leroy Palmer, Allen W. Knight and wife. At Sheboygan Falls, Albert Rounseville, wife and two children, Benjamin C. Trowbridge, wife and family, including Alvira O'Cain, Maria Dieckmann, Seth Morse, Samuel Rounseville, Harmon Pierce, Nelson Bradford, George O. Trowbridge, all of the above living in one house, Silas Stedman and wife, David Giddings and wife, Charles D. Cole, wife and family, and George T., William H. and James R. Cole, afterward his mother and three sisters, and his brother George C. lived with Chas. D. Cole. On the Trowbridge farm, William Trowbridge, his wife and sons William S., James T., Thaddeus and John. All the sons are now dead except James T. Chas. D. Cole was Postmaster, the mail being carried every week between Milwaukee and Green Bay by a Frenchman on an Indian pony. C. D. Cole was one of the earliest dealers in merchandise in Sheboygan, and at the Falls. Mr. Hoffman performed the duties of doctor, though the people were so healthy he had not much to do. William Trowbridge, being what was called in the East a whitesmith, did the blacksmithing for the neighborhood. H. Pierce was a miller; Benjamin L. Gibbs did a little tailoring, and James H. did something in shoemaking. Thus were the particular gifts of individuals utilized in early days.

DEATH: This Indenture, made this 15th day of April AD 1853 between the Gibbsville Cemetery Association and A. W. Knight will entitle said A. W. Knight to full possession of ownership to lot No. Fifty Two {52} in the cemetery ground as laid out in the plot of said ground. Subject however to the Regulations & Byelaws of said association the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged. Given under our hands this 7th day of May AD 1853. A. W. Knight-President, Thos Lapham-Treasurer {Certiflcate No. 2}

Mrs. A. W. Knight: Madam. Having been appointed to fulfil the dutys of Secretary of Gibbsville Lyceum, it devolve on me to give you communication of a resolution, unamimousely passed by the members of said society, at their last meeting, the 25 inst. And wich read as follow. Resolved that whereas God, in his all wise providence, has seen fit to remove our Honorable Secretary, A. W. Knight, from us, by death, we humbly acquiess in his will, and, we, the Gibbsville Lyceum, would tender our sympathies to his afflicted family, praying also that the all wise God, wil be the widows God and a Father to the fatherless. This resolution schel be publiched in the Gibbsville Chronicle, an also put on record and a copy send to his family. Your humble servant, H. F. Delamarche, Secretary. Gibbsville, February 27, 1860 [Note: Typed as written on document. 11-13-2002, Shirley Knight Smith]

CENSUS: 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Allen W Knight Age: 29 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1821 Birth Place: Rhode Island Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Wilson and Holland, Sheboygan, Wisconsin Household Members: Name Age (Henry Fiske) Knight 0 Allen W Knight 29 Almond R Knight 5 Cynthia A Knight 7 Elizabeth Knight 30 Elizabeth Knight 3 Lucus Knight 3 Luens Knight 3 Maria G Knight 2 Amalia Rhadermaker 25 Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Wilson and Holland, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Roll: M432_1006; Page: 85; Image: 165.