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William Knight (Wisconsin politician)
William Knight (December 7, 1843 – January 13, 1941), often referred to as Wm. Knight, was a businessman from Bayfield, Wisconsin, involved at one time or another as a merchant, in lumbering, banking, selling real estate, and orchardist, who served one term as a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
==Background and early years==
Knight was born December 7, 1843, on a farm in Kent County, Delaware, near Dover.〔A Joint Resolution Relating to the Life and Puiblic Service of William Knight. 1941. ''Wisconsin Session Laws''. Madison, p. 606.〕 Until the age of twelve, he attended his local public schools. At that time, he switched to academies in Camden and then Dover, followed by two years at the Hudson River Institute in Claverack, New York.
After leaving school, he moved to Detroit, where he worked as a clerk at a mustering and disbursement office of the United States government. He left Detroit in 1867, going first to St. Louis, then to Wyoming (where he operated as a merchant). He left there in 1869, coming to Bayfield, where he settled (except for a year in Ashland, spending most of the ensuing decades in the banking and lumbering trades. By 1910, he had shifted to selling real estate and developing fruit orchards.
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