Children, per 1870 census:
Adam 37 PA
Joseph 35 PA
Anna 31 OH
William 30 PA
George 28 PA
Children or possibly Grandchildren:
Mary S. 5 Washington Territory
Matilda 5 Washington Territory
Sarah 7 MO
Samuel 2 OR
Knight Tradesmen
Establishments to meet the settlers' needs came gradually between 1869 and 1873.
The Joseph Knights, their two daughters and five sons, each of the latter bringing a trade learned in the east, had come west with the first Aurora colonists and to Oregon from Willapa Bay in 1863. They lived briefly at Butteville, then homesteaded at Canby. Here they built the town's first hotel, a two-story structure bearing strong resemblance to those of the Aurora colony.
Next door and diagonally opposite the new railroad depot, Charles "Doc" Knight opened the town's first drug store. There on August 16, 1871, Canby's first post office came into being with Doc as postmaster. William and George Knight opened a mercantile store across from Doc's drugstore, on the corner directly north of the depot. The post office moved there about 1882 when William succeeded to the postmastership, later held by a third brother, George. The latter was a miller by trade, and in 1876-77 operated a flouring mill at New Era, which ground out its last flour in 1950. After selling the mill he moved his family back to Canby to work again with his brother in the growing general merchantile business.
Joseph II, a shoemaker, made harness and boots; Adam, the blacksmith turned out wagons and plows in his smithy shop in the young town. In 1875, the Knight brothers and their father built the first frame house, northwest of Lee's town on the high bank above the Molalla River. From that house, in Knight ownership continuously until it was removed from the landscape in 1967, one could look down on both Knights bridges (the 1877 covered span of wood until 1947) and the 1964 steel and concrete structure.
From, The Canby Herald newspaper, Canby, Oregon, Wednesday, June 30, 1982.
Adam 37 PA
Joseph 35 PA
Anna 31 OH
William 30 PA
George 28 PA
Children or possibly Grandchildren:
Mary S. 5 Washington Territory
Matilda 5 Washington Territory
Sarah 7 MO
Samuel 2 OR
Knight Tradesmen
Establishments to meet the settlers' needs came gradually between 1869 and 1873.
The Joseph Knights, their two daughters and five sons, each of the latter bringing a trade learned in the east, had come west with the first Aurora colonists and to Oregon from Willapa Bay in 1863. They lived briefly at Butteville, then homesteaded at Canby. Here they built the town's first hotel, a two-story structure bearing strong resemblance to those of the Aurora colony.
Next door and diagonally opposite the new railroad depot, Charles "Doc" Knight opened the town's first drug store. There on August 16, 1871, Canby's first post office came into being with Doc as postmaster. William and George Knight opened a mercantile store across from Doc's drugstore, on the corner directly north of the depot. The post office moved there about 1882 when William succeeded to the postmastership, later held by a third brother, George. The latter was a miller by trade, and in 1876-77 operated a flouring mill at New Era, which ground out its last flour in 1950. After selling the mill he moved his family back to Canby to work again with his brother in the growing general merchantile business.
Joseph II, a shoemaker, made harness and boots; Adam, the blacksmith turned out wagons and plows in his smithy shop in the young town. In 1875, the Knight brothers and their father built the first frame house, northwest of Lee's town on the high bank above the Molalla River. From that house, in Knight ownership continuously until it was removed from the landscape in 1967, one could look down on both Knights bridges (the 1877 covered span of wood until 1947) and the 1964 steel and concrete structure.
From, The Canby Herald newspaper, Canby, Oregon, Wednesday, June 30, 1982.
Children, per 1870 census:
Adam 37 PA
Joseph 35 PA
Anna 31 OH
William 30 PA
George 28 PA
Children or possibly Grandchildren:
Mary S. 5 Washington Territory
Matilda 5 Washington Territory
Sarah 7 MO
Samuel 2 OR
Knight Tradesmen
Establishments to meet the settlers' needs came gradually between 1869 and 1873.
The Joseph Knights, their two daughters and five sons, each of the latter bringing a trade learned in the east, had come west with the first Aurora colonists and to Oregon from Willapa Bay in 1863. They lived briefly at Butteville, then homesteaded at Canby. Here they built the town's first hotel, a two-story structure bearing strong resemblance to those of the Aurora colony.
Next door and diagonally opposite the new railroad depot, Charles "Doc" Knight opened the town's first drug store. There on August 16, 1871, Canby's first post office came into being with Doc as postmaster. William and George Knight opened a mercantile store across from Doc's drugstore, on the corner directly north of the depot. The post office moved there about 1882 when William succeeded to the postmastership, later held by a third brother, George. The latter was a miller by trade, and in 1876-77 operated a flouring mill at New Era, which ground out its last flour in 1950. After selling the mill he moved his family back to Canby to work again with his brother in the growing general merchantile business.
Joseph II, a shoemaker, made harness and boots; Adam, the blacksmith turned out wagons and plows in his smithy shop in the young town. In 1875, the Knight brothers and their father built the first frame house, northwest of Lee's town on the high bank above the Molalla River. From that house, in Knight ownership continuously until it was removed from the landscape in 1967, one could look down on both Knights bridges (the 1877 covered span of wood until 1947) and the 1964 steel and concrete structure.
From, The Canby Herald newspaper, Canby, Oregon, Wednesday, June 30, 1982.
Adam 37 PA
Joseph 35 PA
Anna 31 OH
William 30 PA
George 28 PA
Children or possibly Grandchildren:
Mary S. 5 Washington Territory
Matilda 5 Washington Territory
Sarah 7 MO
Samuel 2 OR
Knight Tradesmen
Establishments to meet the settlers' needs came gradually between 1869 and 1873.
The Joseph Knights, their two daughters and five sons, each of the latter bringing a trade learned in the east, had come west with the first Aurora colonists and to Oregon from Willapa Bay in 1863. They lived briefly at Butteville, then homesteaded at Canby. Here they built the town's first hotel, a two-story structure bearing strong resemblance to those of the Aurora colony.
Next door and diagonally opposite the new railroad depot, Charles "Doc" Knight opened the town's first drug store. There on August 16, 1871, Canby's first post office came into being with Doc as postmaster. William and George Knight opened a mercantile store across from Doc's drugstore, on the corner directly north of the depot. The post office moved there about 1882 when William succeeded to the postmastership, later held by a third brother, George. The latter was a miller by trade, and in 1876-77 operated a flouring mill at New Era, which ground out its last flour in 1950. After selling the mill he moved his family back to Canby to work again with his brother in the growing general merchantile business.
Joseph II, a shoemaker, made harness and boots; Adam, the blacksmith turned out wagons and plows in his smithy shop in the young town. In 1875, the Knight brothers and their father built the first frame house, northwest of Lee's town on the high bank above the Molalla River. From that house, in Knight ownership continuously until it was removed from the landscape in 1967, one could look down on both Knights bridges (the 1877 covered span of wood until 1947) and the 1964 steel and concrete structure.
From, The Canby Herald newspaper, Canby, Oregon, Wednesday, June 30, 1982.
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