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service ofF Galveston, Texas, at Barataria, La., and at the mouth of the Mississippi river. He was commissioned captain and again placed on the retired list, April 4, 1867. He died in Everett, Mass.. Nov. HO. 1883.

KNOX, Thomas Wallace, author, was born in Pembroke, N.H., June 26, ISIio. His father, who was a fanner, died in 1839, and Thomas was sent to the Mayliew school in Boston. He returned to New Hampshire in 18-15 and worked on a farm,

attending school dur- ing the winters. In 1851 he left the farm, became a shoemak- ers apprentice, and saved enough money to enable him to at- tend school. He soon became a teach- er in a district school, and in 1858 he se- cured the position of principal in an academy at Kings- ton, N.H. He re-

moved to Denver,

Colorado, in 1860. was a reporter on the Denver Daily Xeics. and at the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted in the army and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of Colo- rado troops. He was war correspondent for the New York Herald, and his articles were pub- lished in book form under the title of " Camp Fire and Cotton Field " (1866). He was wounded in a skirmish and removed to New York, where he became a prominent journalist. His first trip around the world was made as a newspaper cor- respondent in 1866. On this trip, while in Siberia, he travelled 3000 miles in sledges and 1400 miles in wagons, ending his journey in Paris in 1867. Accounts of his travels were published from time to time in the journals, and were republished in book form under the title " Overland through Asia" (1870). A second book entitled "Back- sheesh "(1875) was equally successful. He was the first representative of the western associated press in New York, and supplied telegraphic cor- respondence to the leading western papers for several years. He was appointed Herald com- missioner at the Vienna exhibition in 1873, and took that opportunity to travel through Crimea, Greece, Asia-Minor, Palestine, Egypt and Nubia. In 1875 he went to Ireland with the American rifle team and telegraphed the score of the inter- national rifle match at Dollymount. by means of a device invented by himself, and which lie after- ward perfected and sold to the U.S. government for use in transmission of weatlier maps. In 1877 he made another trip around the world, visiting

Japan, China, Siam, Java, India and Egj'pt, and arriving in Paris in 1878. The King of Siam invested' him with the Onler of the White Ele- pliant for his book "Siam and Java "(1880), ac- companying the order with an autograph letter stating that it had never before been conferred on an American. Colonel Knox was a member for many years and a director and secretary of the Lotus club. Besides the works mentioned, he is the author of: Underground Life (1873); John (1879); The Boy Traveller Series (14 vols., 1880- 94); How to Travel (1880); The Young Nimrods in North America (1881); Pocket Guide for Eu- rope (1882); The Young Nimrods in Europe. Asia and Africa (1883); Pocket Guide around the World (1883); The Voyage of the Vivian (1884); Lii-es of Blaine and Logan (1884); Marco Polo for Boys and Girls (ISSr)}; Robert Fulton (1886); Life of Heni^j Ward Beecher {\H8~ ); Decisive Bat- tles since Waterloo (1887); Dog Stories (1887); Horse Stories (1889); Teetotaler Dick (1890); A Close Shave (1892); The Republican Party and its Leaders (1892); Darkness and Daylight (1892); Tlie Siberian Exiles (1893); The Talking Hand- kerchief (1893); The Lost Army (1894); John Boyd's Adventures (1894); Captain C'ra?ie (1895); A Boy's Life of General Grant (1895); Hunters Tliree aS^T-,); Li Wild Africa (ISm); TheLandof the Kangaroo (1896). He died in New York city, Jan. 6, 1896.

KNOX, William Eaton, clergyman, was born in Knoxboro, N.Y.. Oct. 16, 1820; son of Gen. John Ja}' and Sarah (Curtiss) Knox. He was graduated at Hamilton college in 1840, and at the Auburn Theological seminary, 1843. He was installed at Watertown. N.Y., Feb. 14, 1844, and was pastor of the Second Presbyterian cluirch, "Watertown, N.Y., 1844-48; of the Presbyterian church, Rome, N.Y., 1848-70, and of the First Presbyterian church, Elniira, N.Y., 1870-83. He was married, June 4, 1844, to Marj- Ann Chandler, of Avon, N.Y., and secondly, Oct. 13, 1846, to Alice Woodward Jenks of Toledo, Ohio. He was a trustee of Hamilton college, 1876-83, and re- ceived the degree of D.D. from there in 1865. He died at Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y., Sept. 17, 1883.

KNOX, William Shadrach, representative, was burn at Killingly. Conn.. Sept. 10, 1843; .sonof AVil- liam and Rebecca (Walker) Knox; grandson of Samuel and Mary (Kimball) Knox, and of James and Hannah (Richardson) Walker. He removed with his parents to Lawrence, Mass., in 1853; was graduated from Amherst college in 1865; was admitted to the Essex bar in 1866, and began practice at Lawrence. He was a Republican rep- resentative in the state legislature, and served on the judiciar}' committee, 1874-75; was city solicitor of Lawrence, 1875-76 and 1887-90; and was representative from the fifth district in the