Biography

10/17/1849 - 02/14/1891


KNIGHT, Erwin F., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., October 17, 1849; silk cord spinner; member, 9th Ward Republican Executive Committee; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1889 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1891 term; died, February 14, 1891 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Monument Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania (defunct); removed to Lanview Cemetery, Rockledge, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.


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