{"id":854,"date":"2015-09-20T16:58:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T21:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=854"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:54:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:54:02","slug":"samuel-f-knott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/samuel-f-knott\/","title":{"rendered":"KNOTT, Samuel F."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SAMUEL F. KNOTT<\/strong>, a genial and enterprising citizen of Shelbyville, is a son of <strong>Anderson B. and Elizabeth (Tune) Knott.<\/strong>\u00a0 The father is now residing in Chattanooga, where he follows the carpenter&#8217;s trade.\u00a0 He came to Shelbyville in his childhood and remained here till about 1876, when he removed to Chattanooga.\u00a0 The mother died in 1871.<\/p>\n<p>The subject of this sketch was born September 3, 1848, in this county.\u00a0 He secured only a common school education.\u00a0 At the age of fifteen he began clerking in a drug store and continued in that vocation for fourteen years.\u00a0 He then went to Nashville and traveled for William Litterer &amp; Co., wholesale druggists, for nearly five years.\u00a0 He then returned to Shelbyville, and established the drug trade, in which he has met with well deserved success.\u00a0 He carries a stock of about $7,000 and does a large business.<\/p>\n<p>He was married in 1870 to <strong>Julia B. Steele,<\/strong> a native of this county.\u00a0 Three children have been born to this union, two of whom are living, viz.:\u00a0 <strong>Willie and Annie<\/strong>.\u00a0 He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and his wife and daughter are also members of that church.\u00a0 For four years he has been an elder of the church, and was a deacon for ten years previous.\u00a0 Politically he is a Republican.\u00a0 He is one of the highly respected, energetic business men of the county.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford &amp; Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminescences [Sic], Observations, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAMUEL F. KNOTT, a genial and enterprising citizen of Shelbyville, is a son of Anderson B. and Elizabeth (Tune) Knott.\u00a0 The father is now residing in Chattanooga, where he follows the carpenter&#8217;s trade.\u00a0 He came to Shelbyville in his childhood and remained here till about 1876, when he removed to Chattanooga.\u00a0 The mother died in &#8230; <a title=\"KNOTT, Samuel F.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/samuel-f-knott\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about KNOTT, Samuel F.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2697,2701,2696,2700,2699,2698],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-knott-anderson-b","tag-knott-annie","tag-knott-samuel-f","tag-knott-willie","tag-steele-julia-b","tag-tune-elizabeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}