Katherine Towle Knox (1874 - 1900)

Born 7 Oct 1874 in Cambridgeport, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States

Died 11 Oct 1900 at age 26 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Katherine Knox is Notable.

Katherine Towle Knox was a bicycle racer and the first African American to be accepted into the League of American Wheelmen.^[1]

Katherine Knox was born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts in 1874. She was the daughter of Katherine Towle, a white millworker from East Parsonfield, Maine who was a millworker and John Knox, a Black tailor from Philadelphia.

She died in 1900 from kidney disease^[2] and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kittie_Knox
2. ↑ Death: "Massachusetts, U.S., Death Records, 1841-1915"
   New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840???1911
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2101 #2190060
   Katherine T Knox death 11 Oct 1900 (age 26), daughter of John Knox & Katherine W Towle, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
3. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117861078/katherine-towle-knox: accessed 10 August 2022), memorial page for Katherine Towle “Kittie” Knox (7 Oct 1874–11 Oct 1900), Find a Grave Memorial ID 117861078, citing Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Emersons Plot (contributor 46824834).

• 1880 Census: "1880 United States Federal Census"
  Year: 1880; Census Place: Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: 543; Page: 74D; Enumeration District: 436
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 6742 #15370234
  Katie Knox (5), single daughter, At School, in household of John Knox (42) in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.
• 1900 Census: "1900 United States Federal Census"
  Year: 1900; Census Place: Boston Ward 11, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: 680; Page: 15; Enumeration District: 1310; FHL microfilm: 1240680
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 7602 #75415885
  Katherine T Knox (25), single daughter, Dressmaker, in household of Katherine M Knox Jr (52) in Boston Ward 11, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Born in Massachusetts, USA.