Knight, Wm. Henry (William Henry), 1835-1925
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Knight, William Henry, 1835-1925
Knight, W. H. (William Henry), 1835-1925
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found: Bancroft's map of central California, 1869:map recto (Wm. Henry Knight)
found: World biog. information system, Feb. 23, 2010(Knight, William Henry, b. 1835, d. 1925; public lecturer; journalist; author)
found: Bancroft's map of the Pacific States, 1867:map recto (compiled By Wm. Henry Knight)
found: Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers, 1979:page 360 (Knight, William Henry, cartographer for Bancroft 1863)
found: Rootsweb, via WWW, viewed Oct. 15, 2019(William Henry Knight, born 19 April 1835 in Harmony, Saratoga, New York; died on 12 May 1925 in Los Angeles; lived many years in San Francisco and was manager of Bancroft's Publishing Department, San Francisco, California, from 1864 to 1869; was partner in Bancroft, Knight & Company, publishers of music, from 1870 to 1879; also a writer and lecturer on astronomical and other scientific subjects, and a liberal contributor to leading scientific journals; chief cartographer for U.S. Dept. of Interior, was responsible for the naming of Lake Tahoe) - https://sites.rootsweb.com/~knight57/direct/knight/aqwg177.htm
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2010-02-23: new
2019-10-16: revised
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