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Knowland left a sick bed to vote for his son, November 5, 1912. The afternoon of
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Knowland had an instinct for business and a willingness to undertake new and exciting ventures. Diversified interests, related to the lumber business. He reorganized Gardiner Mill Company of Gardiner City, Oregon. A major interest-holder in the Kerchoff-Cuzner Mill in Los Angeles. Serving with
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Knowland worked as a laborer, with the firm of George H. Moore and Francis B. Folger, which handled clipper ship service between New York and San Francisco. He left Moore and Folger in 1862, to clerk for Charles Hare's Anchors and Ship Chandler Company. However, a position with Benjamin Dore's
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Shortly after his marriage, Joseph
Knowland was elevated to bookkeeper at Henry Blythe's Lumber Yard. Saving enough money to invest, in 1867, he formed a partnership with Jason Springer. Springer and Knowland Lumber Company was a profitable venture. Four years later Knowland and Charles Franklin Doe
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Hopkins Academy and University of the Pacific. Joseph R. Knowland wrote of his mother, "she was known as a warm, confident person who got things done, with a minimum of histrionics and a maximum of effectiveness.... having the rock-ribbed benevolence of a native of Maine".
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Knowland each Christmas would send coal and groceries to the most needy in the community and ask nothing for his charity.
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Russell Knowland, wrote: "his father's parents died when he was a small boy and recalled little or nothing of them".
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Kennedy Mining and Milling Company in Jackson, Amador County. When whaling was very lucrative, Joseph Knowland, was the principal owner of the whaler
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The new home at 2426 Lincoln Avenue was for a growing family. Joseph
Russell Knowland, was born at home, August 5, 1873. The home was not a political one, yet the
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Knowland daughters were born during this period. Sadie E., (1864–1905), and Lucille, (1870–1926). A son, Hollis Russell Knowland, died as an infant.
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the Hoopers and Talbots on the board of directors of the San Pedro Lumber Company. Joseph Knowland was chief advisor to the Southern Lumber Company of
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Free and Accepted Mason, Knights Templar, Royal Arch Mason, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
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