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WIJ.BVR CLISTOS KXIGHT. 



The subject of this sketch was boi'n on 

 a farm at Rochelle, Illinois, December 13, 

 1858. Early in his boyhood his parents, 

 Mr. and Mrs. David A. Knight, removed 

 to a farm at no great distance from Lin- 

 coln, Nebraska. Here he grew to young 

 manhood, gaining the strength of body and 

 mind which is so often developed in unfet- 

 tered country life. Self-reliance and 

 strength of character came to him in the 

 struggle that he, in common with the other 

 members of the family, had p^t forth in 

 what was then the new west, in order to 

 wrest from nature the daily bread. Life 

 in all of its forms, and the hills and rocks 

 appealed strongly to him. By the time 

 that he had secured such education as the 

 country school afforded he had also become 

 more than ordinarily familiar with the 

 fauna, the flora and the geological forma- 

 tions of his neighborhood. 



Being unusually fond of athletic sports, 

 of fishing and of hunting, he led many a 

 merry party in these pursuits, frequeiitly 

 to the complete exhaustion of most of his 

 fellows. In more recent years, his many 

 friends who at one time or another shared 



