William Wylie McKnight

LIKENS, MCKNIGHT, MOORE

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/11/2004 at 08:44:25

W. W. McKnight, Winterset, born in Washington county, Indiana, September 16, 1822; his early life was spent on a farm; he had the advantages of the common schools in youth, and this he supplemented with a years attendance in the preparatory department of Hanover college, Jefferson county, Indiana, and taught three years in his native county; he afterward spent four or five years in Marion and Hendricks counties in teaching and mercantile pursuits, and in 1855 removed to this county, settled in Winterset and commenced trading in land; he followed this occupation for two years and then resumed the mercantile business, following it until 1864; the following January he aided in the organization of the National Bank of Winterset and became its cashier, and the institution is largely indebted to his financial management and business capacity for its present prosperous condition, and he has been connected with its management more or less until 1877, when he retired from the bank; he owns several large farms near Winterset, and is doing an extensive business in the agricultural line, and at the present time is connected with the firm of T. B. Moore & Co., in merchandising and is one of the large tax-payers of Madison county; he has avoided public life as much as possible, but has rendered valuable aid to those interests of great benefit to the public; he married Miss Hanna Likins of Vermillion county, Illinois, in December, 1855; they have seven children: Sarah, now Mrs. Moore, Laura, Emma, Robert W., Charles, Katie and Nellie.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" pages 544, 545