A. T. Knight

    A. T. Knight, senior member of the firm of Knight & Robbins, proprietors of the Harford City Tile Works, became established in the business in 1881, and subsequently his brother-in-law, Mr. Robbins, became associated with him. The business is quite an extensive one, a large amount of tile being manufactured annually, most of which is consumed by home trade. The engine room is 30 x 36 feet and the drying floors are 800 feet square. The engine is of ten-horse power.

    Mr. Knight was born in Grant County, Indiana, near Marion, August 25, 1835, a son of Jerome and Rachel (Wilcutts) Knight, the former of Scotch and Irish and the latter of Scotch, Irish and Welsh descent. He lived in Grant County until twenty years of age, attending school in Grant and Randolph Counties. When twenty years old he moved to Wayne County and there worked on a farm, and for two winters attended school at Arba. He went from there to the vicinity of Hollansburg, Darke County, Ohio, where he taught in the district schools. He went from there to Union City and taught in the school which is on the Ohio side of the line. May 2, 1864, he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Fifty-second Regiment, Ohio National Guard, and served four months, when he was honorably discharged, but subsequently swerved a time in the Eighth Ohio Cavalry. After the war he engaged in the insurance business in Union City, and in 1867 moved to Wells County, Indiana, where he engaged in milling until coming to Hartford City in 1881.

    He is a thorough-going business man, and in the few years of his residence in Hartford has made many friends. He is a member of Lodge No. 250, A. F. & A. M. In politics of the Republican party. Mr. Knight was married December 29, 1860, to Sarah J. Robbins, of Hollansburg, Ohio, a daughter of John and Sarah Robbins. They have had six children, five of whom are living -Edgar O., Rinaldo, Lucullus G., Ivanhoe R. and Earl. Charles is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Knight are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Source: Biographical and Historical Record of Jay and Blackford Counties, Indiana by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887.