David Smith Knox and Sarah B. Franciss

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Husband David Smith Knox ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 19 May 1805 - Connellsville, Fayette Co, PA 3
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           Died: 1867 or 17 Oct 1872 3 4
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         Father: Rev. William Knox (1767-1851) 2 5
         Mother: Nancy Smith (      -      ) 5

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Rebecca Page (      -Aft 1882) 1

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Wife Sarah B. Franciss ^{2 3}

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           Born: 29 May 1829 - Connellsville, Fayette Co, PA 3
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         Father: Dr. James Franciss (      -      ) 2 3
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Children

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1 F Sarah Knox ³

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           Born: 1830 3
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         Spouse: James Smith Miller (      -      ) 3
           Marr: 1850 3

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2 M Dr. William Franciss Knox, M.D. ^{3 6 7}

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           Born: 30 Mar 1831 - Connellsville, Fayette Co, PA 2 3
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         Spouse: Elizabeth Kiddoo (      -      ) 4 8

         Spouse: Mary Paull Miller (      -Aft 1889) 7 8 9

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General Notes: Husband - David Smith Knox

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He was a printer by trade, but early in life followed teaching, mercantile and manufacturing pursuits, and later engaged in banking business for thirty-six years. He was an officer of the Monongahela bank of Brownsville, Pennsylvania; was six years teller and thirty years cashier. This bank was famous as one of the few that never suspended.

His early education was acquired in the public schools of Cadiz, Ohio, and at the age of fifteen years he was apprenticed to learn the trade of printing. At one time, in connection with Judge Weeks, he was editor of the Uniontown Democrat, although he held Republican principles. After severing connection with this paper, he taught school for several years, then, in association with Dr. Lafferty, engaged in the drug business, conducting a store opposite the old iron bridge, the first built in this country. In 1836 he removed to Brownsville and became the teller of the Monongahela Bank, was advanced to the position of cashier in 1840, and held this until his death. The bank with which Mr. Knox was connected, and two others, the Franklin Bank of Little Washington and the old Bank of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, were the only ones in the State of Pennsylvania which were not overwhelmed by the panic of 1873.
He was a member of the board of directors which built the first public school in Brownsville. He was a Whig, then a Republican, in politics, and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. [GPHWP, 584]

1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 399.

2 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 425.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 584.

4 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 426.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 583.

6 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 413, 425.

7 Elizabeth M. Davison and Ellen B. McKee, Annals of Old Wilkinsburg and Vicinity (Wilkinsburg, PA: The Group for Historical Research, 1940), Pg 134.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 585.

9 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 413, 426, 613.