Cyrus Knowlton

Birth Date

1822-05-14

Death Date

1861-12-31

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hamilton County, Ohio, teacher and attorney. Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont, native. Son of Caleb Knowlton and Anna Knowlton. Married to Adaline Dodge Knowlton on December 31, 1851. Father of Carrie Knowlton, Emma A. Knowlton, and Alice Knowlton. Attended Vermont Literary and Scientific Institution in 1841. Attended Brown University in 1844. Teacher in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio in 1850. Attorney in Hamilton County, Ohio in 1860. Employed Catharine Towmy as a domestic servant in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati, p. 543B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Springfield, p. 160.
Catalogue of the Corporation, Officers & Students of the Vt. Lit. & Sci. Institution., 1840-1841. (Brandon, VT: Vermont Telegraph Office, 1841), 6.
Catalogue of the Officers and Students in Brown University, 1844-5. (Boston: George Coolidge, 1844), 7.
"Obituary," Cincinnati Daily Press (Cincinnati, Ohio), January 2, 1862, p. 3.
Charles Henry Wright Stocking, The History and Genealogy of the Knowltons of England and America: Volume 1, (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1897), 249.
"Cyrus Knowlton (1822-1861)," Find A Grave, Memorial #141532128, accessed August 2, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141532128.

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