Biography

09/15/1823 - 11/19/1912

Jesse Wilson Knight (D6) Bucks County 1871-1873

Early Life: 

Jesse Wilson Knight, born, September 16, 1823, city of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; son of Jonathan and Elizabeth Wilson Knight; private, Company I, 17th Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, Civil War, 1862; private, Company G, 43rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, Civil, 1863; miller; superintendent, John Dorrance Flour Mill, 1841-1848; partner, John Dorrance Flour Mill, 1849-1859; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1860 term; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1871-1874; director of the poor, Bucks County; elected, council, Bristol, Pennsylvania; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania Governor, 1908; married, Elizabeth Adair, 1855 (d. 1868); married, Sally Fenton, 1870; died, November 19, 1912, Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; interment, Saint James Episcopal Churchyard, Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Early Career:

Private, Company I, 17th Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, Civil War, 1862; Private, Company G, 43rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, Civil, 1863.

Miller; superintendent, John Dorrance Flour Mill, 1841-1848; partner, John Dorrance Flour Mill, 1849-1859.

Professional titles; business ownership; board memberships; local government; club memberships:

Member, Society of Friends; Royal Arch Mason; member, Knights of Pythias.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1860 term; not a candidate for reelection, 1861.

Elected, Pennsylvania State Senate, 6^th district, Bucks County, 1871-1873; committee assignment, Accounts, Agriculture, Library and Retrenchment and Reform.

Names of any service after Senate –year(s):

Director of the poor, Bucks County; elected, council, Bristol, Pennsylvania;

Unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania Governor, 1908.

Pennsylvania House of Representatives Biography:

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=8052&body=H

Cited:

Smull’s Legislative Hand Book, (1873) Smull, J.A., Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 515, 517, 522-524.

Bucks County Gazette, Bristol, November 20, 1912

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82761254/jesse-w-knight