Knowles, Henry B.

KNOWLES

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 3/13/2008 at 16:32:23

Henry B. Knowles

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.128, Keg Creek Twp.)
Henry B. Knowles, farmer, P. O. Council Bluffs, was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., August 7, 1849, son of Henry and Jane L. (Brush) Knowles; he born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., June 23, 1815, is a lawyer in Potsdam, N. Y.; she, born in Vergennes, Vt., June 21, 1817, and is still living. They are the parents of six children - two sons and four daughters. Our subject received his education in Potsdam, N. Y., Williamstown, Mass., and Cornell University. He started in life as a farmer and stock man. He was married, in Keg Creek Township, February 10, 1881, to Elizabeth J. Orr, born near Cleveland, Ohio, June 15, 1855, daughter of William and Margurette Orr, both natives of Belfast, Ireland, he born March 13, 1817, she March 23, 1817. Our subject came to Council Bluffs in the fall of 1872. His present farm consists of 400 acres, which was, at the time he purchased it, all prairie land, but now contains many substantial improvements, including good buildings, his house being one of the largest and best in the county. He feeds cattle in the winters, and afterward ships them to Chicago. In politics, he is a Republican.