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G. A. KNIGHT, M.D.
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G. A. KNIGHT, M. D., physician and surgeon, located at Kaylor,
Pa., his field of practice covering a radius of five miles from that point,
was born at Salem, Clarion Co., Pa., Oct. 27, 1881, a son of Dr. George A. and
Sarah K. Knight.           Â
George A. Knight, father of Dr. G. A. Knight, was born at Turkey City,
Clarion Co., Pa. He secured his
medical training at Bellevue Hospital, in the city of New York, and engaged in
the practice of his profession at Salem, Pa.Â
In 1895 he retired from practice and later became interested in the oil
and gas business. At one time he
served as surveyor of Clarion county and also in Brady�s Bend township,
Armstrong county. In politics he
was a Democrat. He belonged to
various medical societies. His
death occurred at the age of seventy years, and he was buried in the Lutheran
cemetery at Salem. He married
Sarah K. Kribbs, a native of Salem, daughter of Philip W. Kribbs, and six sons
and one daughter were born to this marriage.Â
One of the sons is an attorney at law.Â
Another son, Frank H. H. Knight, has recently completed a term in the
Pennsylvania Legislature. He is
interested in the coal business at Bethlehem, and also in Knight Brothers�
Creamery, at Leatherwood, Clarion Co., Pa.Â
The mother resides at Salem.           Â
George A. Knight attended the public schools in Clarion county and the
Clarion Normal School, afterward entering Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia, where he was graduated with the class of 1905.Â
He spent one year in the West Penn Hospital at Pittsburgh, Pa., and on
July 17, 1906, established himself at Kaylor, where he has the whole medical
field to himself. He was the
immediate successor of Dr. M. L. Ross, now of New Castle, Pa., and Dr. C. B.
McGogney gave up practice here in February 1913.Â
Dr. Knight is physician and surgeon for the Great Lakes Coal Company
and for another coal company, the Western Allegheny Railroad Company, the
Pittsburgh Limestone Company and the Kittanning Brick Company.Â
He has also business interests, being a member of the Kaylor Investment
Company, the Pine Run Oil and Gas Company, the Pennsylvania Fuel Supply
Company and the Knight Gas company of Clarion county.Â
Professionally he is identified with county and State medical
organizations and belongs also to the American Medical Association.           Â
On May 5, 1909, Dr. Knight was married to Pearl Meybin, daughter of the
late John Meybin, formerly of East Brady, Pa.Â
Mrs. Knight graduated from the East Brady high school, and afterward
was stenographer and bookkeeper in the First National Bank at East Brady.Â
Dr. and Mrs. Knight have two sons, George A. and William B.Â
The Doctor is a member of the Lutheran Church.Â
In politics he is independent. Fraternally
he is connected with the Elks at Kittanning, Pa., the Foresters of America at
Philadelphia, and the Red Men and Odd Fellows at Kaylor.
Source: Page 877, Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and
Present, J. H. Beers & Co., 1914
Transcribed May 2002 by James R. Hindman for the Armstrong County Beers
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