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 KITTREDGE. KNOWLTON. 361 They have two daughters : Adelaide Pea- body (Mrs. Alfred W. Carr) and Mary Louise Kinsley. KITTREDGE, Charles James, son ■of Abel and Eunice (Chamberlain) Kitt- redge, was born on the 1st of April, 1818, at Hinsdale, Berkshire county. In the schools of his native place he re- ceived his early education, and for six months attended the Lenox Academy; then for eighteen months he was a student at the Westfield Academy, and for six months at Castleton Seminary, Vt. In 1842 he opened a country retail store, in Hinsdale, where he remained for ten years, when he sold out the store and began the manufacture of woolen goods, which has since been his principal occu- pation. On the 17th of June, 1845, at Riga, N. Y., Mr. Kittredge was married to Frances M., daughter of James and Lydia (Baldwin) Birchard. Their children are : James B., Charles F. (deceased), Ellen J., Clara B., Henry P., Lydia S. (deceased), and Mary J. Kittredge (deceased). Mr. Kittredge has been for thirty years deacon and treasurer of the Congrega- tional church, and was delegate to the Con- gregational council at Detroit in 1877. He has held the offices of town clerk, selectman, justice of the peace and trial justice, and has been upon the school committee. For three years he was county commis- sioner for Berkshire county. He was a representative to the General Court in 1868, and a member of the Senate in i869-'7o. He was state director of the Boston & Albany R. R. in i87o-'7i, and president of the Plunkett Woolen Com- pany, of Hinsdale, from 1862 to '78. He still resides in his native town, where he has made for himself an honored name, and become well known as an enthusiastic participant in philanthropic, social, and political movements. KNIGHT, HORATIO GATES, the son of Sylvester and Rachel L. Knight, was born in Easthampton, Hampshire county, March 24, 1818. He received his early education at the common schools of his native town. When quite a boy he went into the employ of Samuel Williston at Easthampton, with the expectation of going at once into his store, but much to his surprise he was set to work in the garden. Though a little dis- appointed and dissatisfied, he has since said he did the work the best he could. He soon rose in position. In 1832 he be- came a clerk in Mr. Williston's employ, and in 1842 he was a partner with him in his extensive button manufacturing busi- ness. He continued with Mr. Williston in various manufacturing enterprises and mer- cantile pursuits till the time of the lat- ter's death. He is now a manufacturer and merchant, being the senior member of the Williston & Knight Company, New York. Mr. Knight served two years in the House of Representatives, two years in the Senate, two years in the executive coun- cil, and four years as lieutenant-governor. He has been a trustee of Williams Col- lege, Williston Seminary, Clarke Institu- tion for Deaf Mutes, president of a national bank, a savings bank, and of several man- ufacturing corporations, a director of the New Haven & Northampton railroad, a member of the state board of education, of the Easthampton school committee, and has held various other offices in his native town. Mr. Knight was appointed by " War Governor " Andrew to the office of draft- ing commissioner, by Governor Claflin a commissioner on the Lee and New Haven railroad matters, and by Governor Wash- burn a state commissioner to the Vienna Exposition. He has traveled extensively in this and foreign countries, having visited Europe many times for business and pleasure. He was a delegate to the Chicago con- vention that first nominated Abraham Lin- coln, and to the Philadelphia convention that nominated General Grant. Mr. Knight was married in New York City, September 28, 1842, to Mary Ann, daughter of Charles and Minerva P. Hun- toon, by whom he has five surviving chil- dren : Alice, Horatio W., Lucy, Charles H., and Mary Knight — two boys, Frederick A. and Russell W., dying in infancy. KNOWLTON, MARCUS P., son of Merrick and Fatima (Perrin) Knowlton, was born in Wilbraham, Hampden county, February 3, 1839. He was five years old when his parents moved to Monson, where he lived upon a farm till he was seventeen, studying in the public schools and fitting for college in the Monson Academy, teaching in the dis- trict school the last two winters. He entered Yale in 1856, graduating in i860, when he accepted the position of principal of the Union school, at Norwalk, Conn. A year later he entered the law office of James G. Allen, of Palmer, and afterward studied under John Wells and Augustus L.