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George Simpson Knight

12 Jun 1890 – 15 Jan 1987

Birth	12 Jun 1890
Death	15 Jan 1987
Cemetery	Greenwood Cemetery Bemidji , Beltrami County , Minnesota , USA
Added by	david long on 10 Jun 2014
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120270299

Bio

Married Mary S. Lynch on July 4, 1915 in Mille Lacs County, Mn. Married Helen Thunder on Jan 29, 1959 in Beltrami Co., MN George Knight retired as Soo Line freight agent on October 18, 1960. He came to Bemidji when it was a thriving lumbering center in 1915 just a few years after the Soo Line had completed its Moose Lake-Plummer extension. Knight was born and raised in Edgerton, Ohio, where he spent his youth. At the age of 18, he made his first journey into the North Country, working for the Duluth Mesabi and Northern railroad out of Duluth as operator and cashier. He received his Bemidji assignment with the Soo Line in July 1915. Knight recalled that across from the Soo Line depot was a frog pond covered with water two feet deep. The Bemidji Hotel occupied the spot in the 1960s. Much of the town was located south of the tracks between the depot and Lake Irving.

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Family

Parents

• Lawrendus Albin Knight Sr 1850–1916
• Sarah Christina Houk Knight 1854–1935

Spouse

• Mary Sarah Lynch Knight 1888–1956
• Helen Luella Thurber Knight 1897–1990

Siblings

• Grace A Knight Hartley 1878–1963
• Lloyd Elliott Knight 1881–1937
• Ethel Bessie Knight Lawler 1886–1977
• Lawrendus Albin Knight Jr 1887–1978
• Urba May Knight Geiger 1888–1983
• Eleen Ermine Knight Terry 1895–1974

Children

• George S Knight Jr 1916–1948

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