10 Facts About Ebenezer Knowlton

Ebenezer Knowlton was a US Representative from Maine, and Free Will Baptist minister.

Ebenezer Knowlton attended the China and Waterville Academies in Maine.

Ebenezer Knowlton studied theology and entered the ministry as a Free Will Baptist.

Ebenezer Knowlton served as a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1844 to 1850, and served as speaker in 1846.

Ebenezer Knowlton was elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress from March 4,1855 to March 3,1857.

Ebenezer Knowlton became an early member of the Republican Party and was a lifelong supporter of abolitionism and the temperance movement.

Ebenezer Knowlton served as trustee of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

Ebenezer Knowlton served as a trustee of Colby College and Maine Central Institute, and after the Civil War he worked for the Freedmen's Bureau in Beaufort, South Carolina.

Ebenezer Knowlton was a corporator of the Morning Star, a Free Will Baptist newspaper, and was president of the Foreign Missions Board.

Ebenezer Knowlton died in South Montville, Maine on September 10,1874.