Ebenezer Knowlton
Ebenezer Knowlton | |
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| Member of U.S. House of Representatives from Maine's 3rd district | |
| In office March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857 | |
| Preceded by | E. Wilder Farley |
| Succeeded by | Nehemiah Abbott |
| 18th Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives | |
| In office 1846–1847 | |
| Preceded by | Moses Macdonald |
| Succeeded by | Hugh Dean McLellan |
| Member of the Maine House of Representatives | |
| In office 1844–1850 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 December 1815 Pittsfield, New Hampshire, United States |
| Died | 10 September 1874 (aged 58) South Montville, Maine |
| Political party | Opposition Party |
| Other political affiliations | Republican Party |
| Occupation | Minister, Congressman |
Ebenezer Knowlton (December 6, 1815 – September 10, 1874) was a U.S. Representative from Maine, and Free Will Baptist minister.
Biography
[edit]Born in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, Knowlton moved with his parents to South Montville, Maine, in 1825. He attended the China and Waterville Academies in Maine. He studied theology and entered the ministry as a Free Will Baptist.
Career
[edit]Knowlton served as a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1844 to 1850, and served as speaker in 1846.[1] Knowlton was elected as an Opposition Party (a party transitioning between the Whigs and Republicans) candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress from March 4, 1855 to March 3, 1857.[2] He became an early member of the Republican Party and was a lifelong supporter of abolitionism and the temperance movement.
Knowlton served as trustee of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Knowlton also served as a trustee of Colby College and Maine Central Institute, and after the Civil War he worked for the Freedmen's Bureau in Beaufort, South Carolina.
He was a corporator of the Morning Star, a Free Will Baptist newspaper, and was president of the Foreign Missions Board. Knowlton continued his ministerial duties until his death.
Death
[edit]Knowlton died in South Montville, Maine on September 10, 1874, and is interred in the South Montville City Cemetery.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Knowlton, Ebenezer, (1815 - 1874)". Biographical Directory of the United StatesCongress. Retrieved August 26, 2012.
- ^ "Rep. Ebenezer Knowlton". govtrack.us. Retrieved August 26, 2012.
- ^ "Ebenezer Knowlton". Find A Grave. Retrieved August 26, 2012.
External links
[edit]- United States Congress. "Ebenezer Knowlton (id: K000294)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Ebenezer Knowlton at Find a Grave
- Nathan Franklin Carter, The Native Ministry of New Hampshire, (1906)
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- 1815 births
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- 19th-century American legislators
- 19th-century Baptist ministers from the United States
- Activists from New Hampshire
- American abolitionists
- American temperance activists
- Baptist abolitionists
- Bates College people
- Free Will Baptists
- Republican Party members of the Maine House of Representatives
- Opposition Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Maine
- People from Montville, Maine
- People from Pittsfield, New Hampshire
- South Carolina Republicans
- Speakers of the Maine House of Representatives
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Maine