Born: New York, 1824.
Died: Waukegan, Illinois, 1914.
Shortly after his marriage in 1846, Mr. Knox, with his wife, came to Lake County, Ill. Both were active members of the Baptist Church. He was a "licentiate" and she a pioneer and leader in all church work. He heard that a minister had been traveling in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, and that his "preaching was tearing Baptist churches all to pieces." On inquiring, he learned that the name of this disrupter was Alexander Campbell. There were at that time a few Disciples scattered through that section who had come from Ohio. Some of them loaned Mr. Knox a copy of the "Christian Baptist." Before they had read the book half through, he and his wife were in full accord with the principles and aims of the Restoration movement. To these their lives were devoted.
They were the parents of Mrs. Louise Kelly, so widely and favorably known as a Christian woman of superior ability and usefulness. For more than half a century, Mr. Knox lived and labored in Lake County for the primitive gospel. With a well-informed faith, he was as immovable as a mountain. In his evening-time he waited in the twilight of the eternal day.