BIOGRAPHIES

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Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio
Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago & New York
1920
Transcribed by Sharon Wick

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Dr. R. S. Kister

RICHARD SAMUEL KISTER, M. D. Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 124

DORR SANTEE KNIGHT, one of the advisory editors of the History of Fulton County, whose services are at this point specially acknowledged, has spent all his life in the county, is well known as a former county treasurer, and also as a business man and banker.      Mr. Knight whose home is at Wauseon, was born in Royalton township Feb. 1, 1874.  His father, George Tyler Knight, was born in Vermont, Jan. 22, 1833, and for many years was an active farmer of Fulton county.  He was a republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  The mother, Almira Matilda Santee, was born Sept. 22, 1840.      Dorr Santee Knight grew up on a farm, attended the district schools and also the normal schools of Fayette and Wauseon.  In early youth he took up the vocation of a tiller of the soil, and followed that occupation on the old homestead in Royalton township to the age of thirty-seven.  In the meantime he became well known over the county, and entered politics as a candidate for the office of county treasurer, was elected, and discharged the duties of office until September, 1915, in the meantime removing to Wauseon.      In the spring of 1915 Mr. Knight formed a partnership with C. J. Ives and purchased the furniture store of E. L. Burgoon.  Later he sold his interest, for about two years was engaged in the coal business, and during the period of the World War was cashier of the Lyons Commercial Bank.  Since leaving this bank he has resumed his residence in Wauseon.  Mr. Knight has always been an active supporter and a leader in the republican party in Fulton county, is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and member of the Eastern Star.      June 18, 1895, in Richfield Township, Lucas county, he married Miss Etta Sanderson, a daughter of M. P. and Sarah Sanderson.  She was educated in the public schools of Lucas County and in the Wauseon Normal.  After the death of his first wife Mr. Knight married Florence Mary Meeker at Lyons on Oct. 18, 1899.  She is the daughter of Walter S. and Rebecca L. Meeker.  Mr. Knight has two children, Alice, born May 23, 1896, in Royalton Township; and George Myron, born Sept. 16, 1897.  The son is now a student in the Ohio State University at Columbus.  The daughter, Alice, is a graduate of the Wauseon High School, spent three years in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and is now the wife of Ralph A. Howard, a Pike Township farmer. Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 552

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