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From: Tina Hursh <>
Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio:Knowles, William - Licking Co.
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 13:38:17 -0500

>From the The Ohio Biographies Project
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html
a part of The U.S. Biographies Project
http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html

Transcribed by Deb.


"Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol 2" by Henry Howe. (pub 1888)

Licking County
Page 87

There died in Homer, April 28, 1889, William Knowles, at the age of 83 years,
where he had long been a resident. He was born in England, emigrated when a
young man, and was always poor in purse, but rich in Christian faith, and for a
long time brightened the toilsome labor of making brooms for the support of a
large family by venturing on airy flights in the realms of poetry. One of his
poems, "Betsy and I are One," appeared in the Toledo Blade, and received wide
commendation. In a volume preserving the results of his winged excursions is
another, wherein he epitomizes his own thoughts in the way of the desirable.

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