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* KNOX. 568 KNOXVILLE. Island of Ceylon in the Eust Indies; Together With an Ac(Ount of the Detaining in Vaplicity the Author and Diverse Other Englishmen A'oiw Living There, ami of the Author's Miraculous Escape. Illustrated with Figures and a Map of the Island (Lrmdon, lUSl). This has been translated into Freneli, Dutch, and German. KNOX, Thomas Wallace (1835-96). An American journalist and traveler, born in Pem- broke, N. H. He was ediicated there and in I'itt^lield, taught for a time in Kingston. N, II., but went gold-lniiitiii<,' in ISiJO. to Colorado, where lie entered into journalistic work. He was a correspondent during the Civil War, and also saw active service. He traveled round the world as a special correspondent, in 18(iG and again in 1877, and his varied experiences formed the basis lor his numerous works, deservedly popular with young people. They include: Cuinp-l'irc and Cot- tmi Field { 1SG5) ; Ooerland Through Asia { 1870) : Underground Life (1873); Backsheesh (1875); Voyage of the 'Vivian' to the North Pole (1884) ; Holtcrl Fulton and t^teum Navigation (1886); Life of Henry Ward Beerher (1887); Decisive Battles since Waterloo (1887) ; Young Nimrods, and the series of travels. KNOX, William ( 1732-1810). A British of- ficial and pamphleteer, born in Ireland. .t the age of twenty-five he was sent to Georgia as pro- vost-marshal under Gocrnor Ellis, and remained (here four years. Afterwards he was colonial agent in England for Georgia and East Flor- ida. His defense of the Stamp Act, con- tained in two pamphlets, written in 17G4- and 1765, brought about his dismissal from office, but lie was made Under-Se<retary of State for America (1770-82). He inspired Lord North's attempt at compromise (1776), and was also the instigator of the .separation of New Brunswick (Canada) into a distinct province (1784), to be settled by Loyalists from the States. His pub- lications include: .1 Defence of the Quebec Art (1774) ; Considerations on the State of Ireland (1778); Merits of the Commercial Treaty irilh France (1788); Considerations on the I'resent State of the Nation (1789) ; Observations Upon the lAturqi/ (1789) ; Considerations on Theocracy (1790). KNOX COLLEGE. . coeducational institu- tion of collegiate grade at (ialesburg, HI., char- tered in 1837 as the Knox JIanual Labor College in pursuance of a plan adopted in Whitest own, Nf. Y., in 1836. It was opened in 1841 and was renamed Knox College in 1857. The original plan contemplated the subscript iim of .$40,000 and the purchase of lands in the Mississippi Valley at the Government price. Free tuition for one student for twenty-five years was secured to every sub- scriber purchasing eighty acres. The college had in 1902, 688 students in three departments, a col- lege and academy, and a conservatory of music, established in 18S3: 34 instructors: and a library of abovit 10.000 volumes. The amount of pro- ductive funds, iiielu'man of the Established Church, horn at Stuartstown, County Tyrone, Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and after graduation became an assistant master at Sherborne School. Later he held a number of curacies, and in 1875 was appointed rector of Saint Albans at (,'heetwood, ilanchester, an oHice which he held until 1885, when he became Vicar of Hoar Cross. In 1881 he was appointed Canon of Wmcester. Among his publications are: Meditations on the Three Hours' Agony of Our Blessed Hedecmer (1877); Characteristics and Motives of the Christian Life (1880); The Journey of Life: The Light of Life (1888) : The Perfect Life (1899); Sketches and Studies in South Africa ( IS99) ; The Waif from the Moves (1890) ; and Ihily Matrimony (1900). KNOX'VILLE. A city and the county-seat of Marion County, Iowa, 35 miles southeast of Des Jloines; on the Chicago, Itock Island and Pacific, and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroads (.Map: Iowa, D 3). It has the Slate Industrial Home for the Blind, a public liigli- school library, and a fine court house. The city carries on a considerable trade as the centre of a farming, stock-raising, and coal-mining district, and has flouring-niills, a canning-factory, foundry and machine-shops, etc. There are municipal waterworks. Population, in 1890,2032; in 1900, 3131, KNOXVILLE. A city and the county-seat of Knox County, Tcnn., Ill miles northeast of Chat- tanooga : on the Holston River, at the head of steam navigation; and on the .Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern, tlu' Knoxville an<l .Augusta, the Knoxville. Cumberland Gap and Louisville, and the Southern railroads (Ma]i: Tennessee, H 5). It has a site of great natural beauty among the foothills of the Clinch Mountains. There are State asylums for the insane and for the deaf and diunb, a fine Govermnent building, a city hospital, court-house, city hall, city market, Lawson Mc- Ghee Memorial Library, the building which served as the first Capitol of Tennessee, the Uni- versity of Tennessee (q.v.), the Agricultural Col- lege, and Knoxville College, for colored students, oilier points of interest arc the iron bridge across the river. Gray Cemetery, and the National Cem- etery, in which are 3201 graves, 1047 of unknown dead. In comiiiei<ial importance, Knoxville ranks with the chief interior cities of the South. It is the centre of the marble region of the State. and, besides a large trade in marble, both dressed and undressed, it has extensive wholesale inter- ests, and ships considerable agricultural produce. Its manufactures also are important, including furniture, cotton and woolen goods, flour, lumber, foundry products, cars and car-wheels, wagons, and many other articles. The government is ad- ministered by a mayor, elected every two years, and a unicameral council, which controls elec- tions to the more important offices, the executive having no appointive power, and the three mem- bers of the board of public works alone being chosen by popular election. The municipal budget balances" at over $350,000, the principal items of expense being $45,000 (approNiniafely ) for schools, $30,000 for street expenditures, and $25,- 000 each for the fire department, for street light- ing, and for the police department (including amounts for police courts, jails, reformatories, etc.). Population, in 1880, '9093; in 1890, 22,- .535; in 1900, 32,037. Settled in 1787. Knoxville was laid out and named (after Gen. Henry Knox) in 1791, and