. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. o was a physician, went from Maineto Illinois in 1838 and two years later to Iowa. In1850 he went to California, but returned in the fol-lowing year to Keokuk, Iowa, where, during theCivil War he was in charge of a Government Hospi-taL His mother was a daughter of Zebulon Smithwho was born in or near Concord, New Hampshire,where his ancestors settled many years prior to theRevolutionary War. Graduating from the De
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. o was a physician, went from Maineto Illinois in 1838 and two years later to Iowa. In1850 he went to California, but returned in the fol-lowing year to Keokuk, Iowa, where, during theCivil War he was in charge of a Government Hospi-taL His mother was a daughter of Zebulon Smithwho was born in or near Concord, New Hampshire,where his ancestors settled many years prior to theRevolutionary War. Graduating from the Denmark(Iowa) Academy he was for two years a student atAntioch College during the Presidency of HoraceMann. He accompanied his father to Californiawhen sixteen years old, but not being favorably im-pressed with the Pacific Coast he returned to Keo-kuk. His legal studies, begun under the directionof Justice Miller of the United States SupremeCourt, were completed at the Harvard Law School,where he took the degree of Bachelor of Laws in1860, and after his admission to the Bar he inaugu-rated his professional career in Keokuk. He laterwent to Nevada, where he served as Prosecuting. H1I<.«I KNOWLES Attorney for Humboldt county in 1863 and as Judgeof Probate from the latter year to 1865. He prac-tised law in Idaho for one year, and subsequentlymoving to Montana Territory was in 186S appointed [86 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, in whichcapacity he served until resigning in 1S79. Hewas a Delegate to the Montana Constitutional Con-vention in 1889 and from 1890 to the present timehas been Judge of the United States District Knowles resides in Missoula, Montana. Hewas Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons ofMontana in 1880, and is a member of the AncientOrder of United Workmen and the Montana Club,Helena. Although a Republican in politics he be-lieves in the free coinage of silver, and in 1884 washis partys candidate for Territori
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