1. Joseph Knowland was an American businessman active in the San Francisco Bay Area.
18 Facts About Joseph Knowland
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Joseph Knowland was the father of United States Representative Joseph Russell Knowland, grandfather of United States Senator William Fife Knowland, and great-grandfather of publisher and actor Joseph William "Joe" Knowland.
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Joseph Knowland was born in New York City, October 8,1833.
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Joseph Knowland's son, Joseph Russell Knowland, wrote: "his father's parents died when he was a small boy and [he] recalled little or nothing of them".
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Joseph Knowland crossed the Isthmus by the 49-mile railway, seeing the tropical trees and jungle.
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Joseph Knowland arrived in San Francisco on February 14,1857.
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Joseph Knowland traveled to Yankee Jim's in Placer County, the argonauts' gateway to the gold fields.
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Joseph Knowland worked as a laborer, with the firm of George H Moore and Francis B Folger, which handled clipper ship service between New York and San Francisco.
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Joseph Knowland left Moore and Folger in 1862, to clerk for Charles Hare's Anchors and Ship Chandler Company.
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Shortly after his marriage, Joseph Knowland was elevated to bookkeeper at Henry Blythe's Lumber Yard.
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Joseph Knowland had an instinct for business and a willingness to undertake new and exciting ventures.
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Joseph Knowland reorganized Gardiner Mill Company of Gardiner City, Oregon.
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Joseph Knowland was chief advisor to the Southern Lumber Company of San Diego.
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Joseph Knowland served as vice-president of the Kennedy Mining and Milling Company in Jackson, Amador County.
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When whaling was very lucrative, Joseph Knowland, was the principal owner of the whaler Amethyst.
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Joseph Knowland, became a major stockholder in the Alameda Bank, and trustee of the Gas Consumers Association.
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Joseph Knowland left a sick bed to vote for his son, November 5,1912.
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The afternoon of November 13,1912, Joseph Knowland died at his Alameda home, surrounded by his wife, son and daughter.