Manhattan Republic. Manhattan, Kansas. 28 May 1931, Thu.
Michael Charles Knight was born in Bristol, Indiana, November 23, 1866, and died at Manhattan, May 21, 1931, after a prolonged illness from diabetes. Covering about seven months, although the immediate cause of his death was heart failure.
At the age of two years he came to Kansas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs frank Knight, who located at St.George, and there spent all his boyhood days. When about seventeen he left home and went to work for the Rock Island railroad at Pacino, while the road was being constructed to Colorado Springs. By the time he was twenty-one he had occupied the positions of time keeper brakeman and freight conductor, and later became a passenger conductor. When a brakeman, with headquarters at Belleville, he met Miss Nora Parks who afterward became his wife. They were married June 5, 1892, at Clay Center, later landing at Council Bluffs, Iowa, until he quit the rock Island railroad. Then they went to Old Mexico where he was employed as a passenger conductor on the Mexican Central railroad, with headquarters at Aqua Caliente.
Leaving the railroad he took up insurance and located in Manhattan where they resided at the time of his death. Having to give up the insurance business on account of poor health he was employed by the city as poll tax collector for seven years, and was also an employee at Cole Brothers store.
There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Knight two children, Gladys who died in Ica Cem and Marie who lived until fifteen years of age. Mr. Knight had even a member of the Christian church thirty-two years, and alway retained his interest in its work and his faith in his Savior. He was a member of the Order of Railway Conductors No. 343, Fairbury, Nebr. Mike, as everybody called him, made friends wherever he was, especially with the boys and young men, as not only his nephews can testify but many other lads in Manhattan.
Besides his wife, Mr. Knight leaves his aged mother, Mrs. Martha Knight, who lives with his sister Mrs. George W. Hacker at whose home the funeral was held. There are surviving him also three nephews, Percy, James and Martin Hacker, and a great nephew, Brice Hacker of California, and two nieces, Mrs. Doris H. Skinner of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Charlotte H. Ryan of Manhattan.
The funeral services were conducted by Dr. J. David Arnold of the First Christian church, and the body was taken to Belleville and laid beside his children.
Contributor: Jean Wilson (48841367)
Michael Charles Knight was born in Bristol, Indiana, November 23, 1866, and died at Manhattan, May 21, 1931, after a prolonged illness from diabetes. Covering about seven months, although the immediate cause of his death was heart failure.
At the age of two years he came to Kansas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs frank Knight, who located at St.George, and there spent all his boyhood days. When about seventeen he left home and went to work for the Rock Island railroad at Pacino, while the road was being constructed to Colorado Springs. By the time he was twenty-one he had occupied the positions of time keeper brakeman and freight conductor, and later became a passenger conductor. When a brakeman, with headquarters at Belleville, he met Miss Nora Parks who afterward became his wife. They were married June 5, 1892, at Clay Center, later landing at Council Bluffs, Iowa, until he quit the rock Island railroad. Then they went to Old Mexico where he was employed as a passenger conductor on the Mexican Central railroad, with headquarters at Aqua Caliente.
Leaving the railroad he took up insurance and located in Manhattan where they resided at the time of his death. Having to give up the insurance business on account of poor health he was employed by the city as poll tax collector for seven years, and was also an employee at Cole Brothers store.
There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Knight two children, Gladys who died in Ica Cem and Marie who lived until fifteen years of age. Mr. Knight had even a member of the Christian church thirty-two years, and alway retained his interest in its work and his faith in his Savior. He was a member of the Order of Railway Conductors No. 343, Fairbury, Nebr. Mike, as everybody called him, made friends wherever he was, especially with the boys and young men, as not only his nephews can testify but many other lads in Manhattan.
Besides his wife, Mr. Knight leaves his aged mother, Mrs. Martha Knight, who lives with his sister Mrs. George W. Hacker at whose home the funeral was held. There are surviving him also three nephews, Percy, James and Martin Hacker, and a great nephew, Brice Hacker of California, and two nieces, Mrs. Doris H. Skinner of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Charlotte H. Ryan of Manhattan.
The funeral services were conducted by Dr. J. David Arnold of the First Christian church, and the body was taken to Belleville and laid beside his children.
Contributor: Jean Wilson (48841367)
Manhattan Republic. Manhattan, Kansas. 28 May 1931, Thu.
Michael Charles Knight was born in Bristol, Indiana, November 23, 1866, and died at Manhattan, May 21, 1931, after a prolonged illness from diabetes. Covering about seven months, although the immediate cause of his death was heart failure.
At the age of two years he came to Kansas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs frank Knight, who located at St.George, and there spent all his boyhood days. When about seventeen he left home and went to work for the Rock Island railroad at Pacino, while the road was being constructed to Colorado Springs. By the time he was twenty-one he had occupied the positions of time keeper brakeman and freight conductor, and later became a passenger conductor. When a brakeman, with headquarters at Belleville, he met Miss Nora Parks who afterward became his wife. They were married June 5, 1892, at Clay Center, later landing at Council Bluffs, Iowa, until he quit the rock Island railroad. Then they went to Old Mexico where he was employed as a passenger conductor on the Mexican Central railroad, with headquarters at Aqua Caliente.
Leaving the railroad he took up insurance and located in Manhattan where they resided at the time of his death. Having to give up the insurance business on account of poor health he was employed by the city as poll tax collector for seven years, and was also an employee at Cole Brothers store.
There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Knight two children, Gladys who died in Ica Cem and Marie who lived until fifteen years of age. Mr. Knight had even a member of the Christian church thirty-two years, and alway retained his interest in its work and his faith in his Savior. He was a member of the Order of Railway Conductors No. 343, Fairbury, Nebr. Mike, as everybody called him, made friends wherever he was, especially with the boys and young men, as not only his nephews can testify but many other lads in Manhattan.
Besides his wife, Mr. Knight leaves his aged mother, Mrs. Martha Knight, who lives with his sister Mrs. George W. Hacker at whose home the funeral was held. There are surviving him also three nephews, Percy, James and Martin Hacker, and a great nephew, Brice Hacker of California, and two nieces, Mrs. Doris H. Skinner of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Charlotte H. Ryan of Manhattan.
The funeral services were conducted by Dr. J. David Arnold of the First Christian church, and the body was taken to Belleville and laid beside his children.
Contributor: Jean Wilson (48841367)
Michael Charles Knight was born in Bristol, Indiana, November 23, 1866, and died at Manhattan, May 21, 1931, after a prolonged illness from diabetes. Covering about seven months, although the immediate cause of his death was heart failure.
At the age of two years he came to Kansas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs frank Knight, who located at St.George, and there spent all his boyhood days. When about seventeen he left home and went to work for the Rock Island railroad at Pacino, while the road was being constructed to Colorado Springs. By the time he was twenty-one he had occupied the positions of time keeper brakeman and freight conductor, and later became a passenger conductor. When a brakeman, with headquarters at Belleville, he met Miss Nora Parks who afterward became his wife. They were married June 5, 1892, at Clay Center, later landing at Council Bluffs, Iowa, until he quit the rock Island railroad. Then they went to Old Mexico where he was employed as a passenger conductor on the Mexican Central railroad, with headquarters at Aqua Caliente.
Leaving the railroad he took up insurance and located in Manhattan where they resided at the time of his death. Having to give up the insurance business on account of poor health he was employed by the city as poll tax collector for seven years, and was also an employee at Cole Brothers store.
There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Knight two children, Gladys who died in Ica Cem and Marie who lived until fifteen years of age. Mr. Knight had even a member of the Christian church thirty-two years, and alway retained his interest in its work and his faith in his Savior. He was a member of the Order of Railway Conductors No. 343, Fairbury, Nebr. Mike, as everybody called him, made friends wherever he was, especially with the boys and young men, as not only his nephews can testify but many other lads in Manhattan.
Besides his wife, Mr. Knight leaves his aged mother, Mrs. Martha Knight, who lives with his sister Mrs. George W. Hacker at whose home the funeral was held. There are surviving him also three nephews, Percy, James and Martin Hacker, and a great nephew, Brice Hacker of California, and two nieces, Mrs. Doris H. Skinner of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Charlotte H. Ryan of Manhattan.
The funeral services were conducted by Dr. J. David Arnold of the First Christian church, and the body was taken to Belleville and laid beside his children.
Contributor: Jean Wilson (48841367)
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