Knight, Camden

Born: 1830-XX-XX New York

Died: 1897-11-18 Will County, Illinois

Camden Knight was a clerk, grain dealer, and army officer. Knight was living and working as a clerk in Joliet, Illinois, in 1850. Between 1850 and 1860, Knight married Emma Wines, with whom he had at least two children. In 1860, the Knights lived in Mattoon Township, Coles County, Illinois, where Camden worked as a grain dealer and had amassed real estate valued at $4,000 and a personal estate value of $1,500. In July 1861, Camden enlisted as a second lieutenant in Company C, First Illinois Cavalry, serving until mustered out in July 1862.

U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Joliet, Will County, IL, 27; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Coles County, IL, 53; Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls , Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; The Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago, IL), 19 November, 1897, 2:6; The Daily Journal (Freeport, IL), 20 November 1897, 6:4; The San Francisco Call (CA), 19 November 1897, 3:1; Gravestone, Mound Grove Cemetery, Kankakee, IL.