KNOWLES, Talbot H.

KNOWLES, SPURR, CURRY

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 2/10/2014 at 17:55:59

Biography ~ Talbot H. Knowles

"Biographical and Historical Record of
Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa"
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), Pp. 665-66:

T. H. Knowles, proprietor of the Woodland Mills, is a native of Maine, born [at Skowhegan] July 1, 1851, a son of C. F. [Consider Fuller] and Mary (Spurr) Knowles. His father died in 1865, and the same year his mother moved with her children to Black Hawk County, Iowa, where he was reared and educated, attending the schools of Waterloo, and the Denizen Academy. In 1869 he went to Dakota, where he remained until 1875, engaged in operating a circular saw. In 1875 he returned to Iowa, and lived eighteen months in Garden Grove, and then went to Missouri, and waas employed in running circular saw-mills in Harrison and Mercer when he located in Woodland. He is a man of intelligence and good business qualifications, and is held in high esteem in both business and social circles of Woodland. His mill building is a two-story frame, fitted with the best mill machinery, an eighteen horse-power engine and a thirty horse-power boiler, with a capacity of 600 bushels every twenty-four hours. He turns out first-class work, and has a good trade from the surrounding country.

NOTE: T. H. married Martha "Mattie" Curry on December 26, 1885 at Woodland. T. H. died on February 12, 1893, and was interred at Lentz Cemetery, Woodland IA. Mattie moved to California where she died September 6, 1941. T. H. and Mattie were the parents of two sons, Edwin and Talbot.

Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, February of 2014