Dr. William Franciss Knox, M.D. and Mary Paull Miller

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Husband Dr. William Franciss Knox, M.D. ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 30 Mar 1831 - Connellsville, Fayette Co, PA 3 4
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         Father: David Smith Knox (1805-1867/1872) 3 4 5
         Mother: Sarah B. Franciss (1829-      ) 3 4

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth Kiddoo (      -      ) 6 7

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Wife Mary Paull Miller ^{2 7 8}

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         Father: Col. William Ludlum Miller (1793-1867) 9 10
         Mother: Jane Torrence (      -1862) 11 12

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. William Franciss Knox, M.D.

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He was reared in Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and educated in the public schools of that town, and Allegheny College in Meadville. He read medicine with Dr. W. L. Lafferty, of Brownsville, and in October, 1852, entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, graduating April 1, 1854. In July of the same year he began the practice of medicine in Snowden township, Allegheny County, and in December, 1855, located in McKeesport, where he was then in active practice. He was a member of the American Medical association, the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania and the Allegheny County Medical society. He was a member of the First M. E. Church; politically, he was first a republican, and later a prohibitionist.

He had six children with his first wife; three were still living in 1889.

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

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

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 425.

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

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

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

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

9 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 413, 612.

10 Elizabeth M. Davison and Ellen B. McKee, Annals of Old Wilkinsburg and Vicinity (Wilkinsburg, PA: The Group for Historical Research, 1940), Pg 128.

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

12 Elizabeth M. Davison and Ellen B. McKee, Annals of Old Wilkinsburg and Vicinity (Wilkinsburg, PA: The Group for Historical Research, 1940), Pg 132.