Biography of Robert Knott, page 497.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana. Inter-State Publishing Company, 
Chicago, 1885.

Robert Knott, deceased, one of the old and well-known citizens of DeKalb County, was born in Pennsylvania June 
22, 1801.  He was married in Crawford County, Ohio, to Elizabeth Gill.  In the spring of 1845 he came to Indiana and 
bought 348 acres of land on section 23, Butler Township, DeKalb County; built a cabin, and the following fall moved 
his family, at that time consisting of his wife and six children, to his frontier home.  He was an energetic, enterprising 
man, and accumulated considerable property,  Public-spirited and liberal, he was often called on to contribute to 
objects of public interest and charity, and every worthy enterprise received his patronage.  He and his wife were 
exemplary members of the Protestant Methodist church, and liberal supporters of all its interests.  Mrs. Knott died 
May 26, 1877, aged seventy years, and Mr. Knott Dec. 8, 1879.  They had a family of eleven children---Joannah, 
Mary, Henry H., Adams, Martha, Catherine, S.M., Joseph, Sarah E., Cordelia W., and Francelia.  Catherine and 
Joseph died in Ohio. Politically Mr. Knott was a Republican.

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