Knoz, James H.

KNOX

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 13:30:58

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.598

KNOX, JAMES H., Indianola, editor; born in Baltimore, Maryland, on the 11th of August, 1821; when four years of age his parents removed to Cadiz, Ohio; at the age of fourteen he entered a printing office, and it proved to be his intellectual training school; in his nineteenth year he removed to Knox county, and settled near Mount Vernon; and his time was divided between farming and printing for a few years; in November, 1854, Mr. Knox came to Iowa, and halted for a short time in Jasper county; in January following he became a partner of the late Lieutenant Governor Needham, in the Oskaloosa Herald; in 1857 he removed to Indianola, and on the 2d of April of that year he published the first number of the Weekly Iowa Visitor, conducting it until some time after the civil war had commenced; in 1861 he was appointed postmaster, and resigned the office in 1862 to go in the service; he raised a Company and went South as Captain of Company D, 34th Iowa Infantry; and after serving eight months was compelled to resign on account of ill health; during the campaign of 1864 he was a writer on the Burlington Hawkeye, and the following winter he held a clerkship in the city of Washington; in 1866 he re-purchased the Indianola Banner, a new name for the "old Visitor," changed it to the original name, and conducted it until 1868, when he went out of journalism for four or five years; in 1873 he repurchased the Herald, in company with A. J. Graham, the present owners; on the 27th of April, 1875, he was appointed postmaster once more, and held the office four years; he married Miss Harriet M. Miller, May 17, 1847; she was a native of Miller township, Knox county, Ohio, a town named for her father, who was a pioneer in that part of the State; their family consists of two children: Ella Augusta, wife of Lorenzo W. Billingsley, and James M.; they have lost two.