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Honorable James Knox
Generation:7
Born:July 4th, 1807
Died:October 9th, 1876, aged about 69 years
Father:James Knox
Mother:Nancy (Ehle) Knox
Occupation(s): ---
Marriages:• Prudence Hubbard (Blish) Knox
At Knoxville, Illinois, USA
Children:None known
A Representative from Illinois; Began his law practice in Utica, NY; moved to Illinois in 1836 and settled in Knoxville, Knox County; and continued to practice law; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1847; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1857); continued to practice law until his death.

In Congress, he was Chairman of the Committee on Roads and Canals. He was public-spirited and was the first President of the Peoria and Oquawka Railroad. He bequeathed a large sum to found an agricultural school in Knoxville. This money was to be available only in case $40,000 in addition could be subscribed in Knox County for the school. As this was not done, the bequest reverted to Yale and Hamilton Colleges and to St. Mary's School. His eyesight failing, he made several trips to Berlin for relief, in 1861, from 1865 to 1869, and again in 1872-1873.


James Knox
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Honorable James Knox

1807 through 1876

1231-1808 Papal Inquisition
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1760-1820 Reign of King George III (Hanover)
1792-1815 Napoleonic war
1800-1809 Thomas Jefferson elected president of US
  1807   Robert Fulton makes 1st practical steamboat voyage
  1808   Import of new slaves into US Is banned
  1808   Pompeii excavation begins in earnest
1809-1816 James Madison elected president of US
  1809   Charles Darwin born
  1810   US pop. reaches 7.2 million
  1810   Homeopathy founded
1812-1814 War of 1812
  1812   Missouri organized as a territory
  1812   Louisiana enters the union - 18th
  1815   French outlaw slavery in France
  1815   Battle of Waterloo
  1815   Sumbawa volcano (Indonesia) erupts; 50,000 killed
  1816   Photographic Negative
  1816   Indiana enters the union - 19th
  1816   Stethoscope
1817-1825 Erie canal constructed
  1817   Alabama organized as a territory
  1817   Mississippi enters the union - 20th
1817-1824 James Monroe president of US
  1817   Pentrich Revolution - Englands last revolution
1817-1823 1st Cholera pandemic
  1818   Jackson Purchase - Kentucky lands
  1818   Savannah 1st steamship to cross the Atlantic
  1818   Illinois enters the union - 21st
  1819   Alabama enters the union - 22nd
  1819   Oersted discovers electro-magnetism
  1819   Arkansas organized as a territory
1820-1830 Reign of King George IV (Hanover)
  1820   Maine enters the union - 23rd
1821-1829 Greek war of Independence
  1821   Missouri enters the union - 24th
  1821   US pop. reaches 9.2 million
  1821   1st US womens college
  1822   Florida organized as a territory
1824-1828 John Quincy Adams president of US
  1824   Internal Combustion Engine
  1824   Erie canal finished
  1826   1st railroad tunnel (England)
  1827   Ohms Law formulated
  1827   1st Black newspaper Freedoms Journal
  1827   Ships propeller (screw)
  1828   1st railroad in the US
1828-1836 Andrew Jackson president of US
  1828   1st Websters Dictionary
  1829   1st US patent on a typewriter
1829-1851 2nd Cholera pandemic
1830-1837 Reign of King William IV (Hanover)
  1830   Mormons (Latter Day Saints) founded
1830-1860 Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US
  1832   Horse-drawn trolleys in New York
  1832   Black Hawk War
  1833   Telegraph
  1833   Slavery abolished in British Empire (home and colonies)
  1834   Modern computer conceived by Charles Babbage
1835-1842 2nd Seminole War
  1835   Halleys Comet
  1835   Mormon leader Joseph Smith prophesies of coming of lord by 1891
  1836   Texas war for independence from Mexico
  1836   Arkansas enters the union -25th
  1836   Battle of the Alamo
  1837   Michigan enters the union - 26th
1837-1840 Martin Van Buren president of US
1837-1901 Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover)
  1837   Depression and Panic in the US - inflation, speculation
1838-1839 Forced relocation of Cherokee
1839-1842 Opium war between China and the English
1841-1844 John Tyler president of US
  1842   Chinese cede Hong Kong to the English
  1844   1st telegraph line message, Washington to New York
  1845   Texas enters the union - 28th
1845-1848 James K Polk president of US
  1845   Florida enters the union - 27th
1845-1849 Irish Potato Famine
  1846   Iowa enters the union - 29th
1846-1848 The Mexican-US War
  1848   NY allows women to own real estate
  1848   Oregon organized as a territory
  1848   Wisconsin enters the union - 30th
1848-1856 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill
1849-1852 Zachary Taylor president of the US
  1849   Fizeau measures speed of light
  1850   Utah (included Nevada) organized as a territory
  1850   US pop reaches 23 million
  1850   California enters the union - 31st
  1850   New Mexico organized as a territory
  1850   World pop. est. at 1.1 billion
  1850   W. H. F. Talbot develops idea of halftone printing
  1851   Gold rush in Australia
1852-1859 3rd Cholera pandemic
1853-1856 Franklin Pierce president of US
  1853   Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory
1854-1856 Crimean War
  1854   Nebraska organized as a territory
  1854   Kansas organized as a territory
  1856   Celluloid, the first thermoplastic
1857-1860 James Buchanan president of US
1857-1866 Transatlantic cable laid
  1857   Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens
  1858   Minnesota enters the union - 32nd
  1858   India bill transfers government of India to England
  1859   Darwin pub. Origin Of Species
  1859   Oil Well
  1859   Oregon enters the union - 33rd
  1860   South Carolina Secedes from the Union
  1860   Rifled barrel invented
1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln president of US
  1861   Gold rush in New Zealand
  1861   Colorado organized as a territory
1861-1865 Confederate States of America Exist
  1861   North Dakota organized as a territory
1861-1865 Civil War
  1861   South Dakota organized as a territory
  1861   Nevada organized as a territory
  1861   Kansas enters the union - 34th
  1861   Transcontinental Telegraph completed
  1861   The Apache Declare War on the US
  1862   US Homestead act
  1863   Arizona organized as a territory
  1863   Idaho organized as a territory
  1863   West Virginia enters the union - 35th
  1863   Battle of Gettysburg
  1863   Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves
1863-1879 4th Cholera pandemic
  1864   Louisiana organized as a territory
  1864   Nevada enters the union - 36th
  1865   Ku Klux Klan founded
  1865   President Lincoln assassinated
  1865   Lister invents Disinfection
  1866   Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts)
1866-1868 Andrew Johnson president of US
  1867   Confederation of Canada
  1867   Diamonds discovered in South Africa
  1867   Dynamite
  1867   Nebraska enters the union - 37th
  1867   Alaska purchased from Russia
1868-1878 War between Cuba and Spain
  1868   Helium discovered (Norman Lockyer)
  1869   Suez canal opened
  1869   Trans-continental railroad completed
1869-1876 Ulysses S Grant president of US
  1869   Cutty Sark built
  1869   Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold
  1870   US black men can vote
  1870   1st black US senator (Hiram Revels)
1870-1871 Franco-Prussian war
  1871   Great Fire destroys Chicago
  1873   Color Photographs
1873-1878 Depression, banks fail
  1876   Colorado enters the union - 38th
  1876   Little Big Horn - Battle
  1876   Telephone (Bell, Latimer)
  1876   US Centennial