JOHN MCKNIGHT.

John McKnight, who served with an Ohio regiment through the full Civil War period, participating in the campaigns of the Southwest and Sherman's historic marches and sieges through the southern States, settled upon section 31, in 1870, and eventually owned a fine property of 240 acres.

From "Compendium and History of Cass County, Iowa." Chicago: Henry and Taylor & Co., 1906, pg. 168.