Seven year old son of Horace Greeley Knowles and his wife Edith Ella (nee Wallace) Knowles (later Steele).
The following was published in the Ogdensburg Journal on 17 March 1911:
The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Horace G. Knowles, the latter being the daughter of the late Lewis Wallace of this city, will be pained to hear of the accidental death of their youngest son, Malcolm Knowles, who was run over by a trolley car in the streets of La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday morning. Mr. Knowles is the US minister to Bolivia. The cablegram states that the foreign colony was greatly grieved by the occurrence. Malcolm was about 7 years old and the younger of the two boys of Mr. and Mrs. Knowles. The other boy, a lad of 11, is attending school in New York and is living with his grandmother, Mrs. Lewis Wallace. Frank Wallace, of this city, a brother of Lewis Wallace, received a telegram announcing the death of his grand nephew. He expects to receive further information tomorrow. The Wallace family has a plot in the Ogdensburg cemetery and it may be that the boy's remains will be interred there when they are brought to this country.
The following was published in The Ogdensburg Advance and St. Lawrence Weekly Democrat on 27 April 1911:
The body of Malcolm Knowles, the son of Horace G. Knowles, United States minister to Bolivia, who was killed last month in La Paz, on his seventh birthday, by being struck by a trolley pole falling from a car, will arrive in this city today for burial in the family plot in the Ogdensburg cemetery. Mr. Knowles and his family have been at La Paz since the first of the year. The boy who was killed was exceedingly bright, being able to speak besides English, French, German and Spanish quite fluently, and he had a superficial knowledge of other languages picked up with his father, who has been in the United States diplomatic corps for several years, during which he has served as minister to Romania, Servia and Bulgaria. When the body was started on its thirty-two days trip to the country, the casket was covered with American flags and placed on a gun carriage. It was then drawn to the transfer steamer by school children of La Paz. The steamer proceeded up the Pacific coast to the Isthmus of Panama, where the coffin was transferred to the Atlantic coast. At every point of transfer the body was escorted by details of soldiers representing the various countries and states though which it passed. Mrs. Knowles is a daughter of the late Lewis Wallace, brother of Frank D. Wallace of this city, and her father and other relatives are buried here. The former home of Mr. and Mrs. Knowles was at Wilmington, Del. They have a son Lewis aged 12 years.
The following was published in the Ogdensburg Journal on 17 March 1911:
The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Horace G. Knowles, the latter being the daughter of the late Lewis Wallace of this city, will be pained to hear of the accidental death of their youngest son, Malcolm Knowles, who was run over by a trolley car in the streets of La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday morning. Mr. Knowles is the US minister to Bolivia. The cablegram states that the foreign colony was greatly grieved by the occurrence. Malcolm was about 7 years old and the younger of the two boys of Mr. and Mrs. Knowles. The other boy, a lad of 11, is attending school in New York and is living with his grandmother, Mrs. Lewis Wallace. Frank Wallace, of this city, a brother of Lewis Wallace, received a telegram announcing the death of his grand nephew. He expects to receive further information tomorrow. The Wallace family has a plot in the Ogdensburg cemetery and it may be that the boy's remains will be interred there when they are brought to this country.
The following was published in The Ogdensburg Advance and St. Lawrence Weekly Democrat on 27 April 1911:
The body of Malcolm Knowles, the son of Horace G. Knowles, United States minister to Bolivia, who was killed last month in La Paz, on his seventh birthday, by being struck by a trolley pole falling from a car, will arrive in this city today for burial in the family plot in the Ogdensburg cemetery. Mr. Knowles and his family have been at La Paz since the first of the year. The boy who was killed was exceedingly bright, being able to speak besides English, French, German and Spanish quite fluently, and he had a superficial knowledge of other languages picked up with his father, who has been in the United States diplomatic corps for several years, during which he has served as minister to Romania, Servia and Bulgaria. When the body was started on its thirty-two days trip to the country, the casket was covered with American flags and placed on a gun carriage. It was then drawn to the transfer steamer by school children of La Paz. The steamer proceeded up the Pacific coast to the Isthmus of Panama, where the coffin was transferred to the Atlantic coast. At every point of transfer the body was escorted by details of soldiers representing the various countries and states though which it passed. Mrs. Knowles is a daughter of the late Lewis Wallace, brother of Frank D. Wallace of this city, and her father and other relatives are buried here. The former home of Mr. and Mrs. Knowles was at Wilmington, Del. They have a son Lewis aged 12 years.
Seven year old son of Horace Greeley Knowles and his wife Edith Ella (nee Wallace) Knowles (later Steele).
The following was published in the Ogdensburg Journal on 17 March 1911:
The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Horace G. Knowles, the latter being the daughter of the late Lewis Wallace of this city, will be pained to hear of the accidental death of their youngest son, Malcolm Knowles, who was run over by a trolley car in the streets of La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday morning. Mr. Knowles is the US minister to Bolivia. The cablegram states that the foreign colony was greatly grieved by the occurrence. Malcolm was about 7 years old and the younger of the two boys of Mr. and Mrs. Knowles. The other boy, a lad of 11, is attending school in New York and is living with his grandmother, Mrs. Lewis Wallace. Frank Wallace, of this city, a brother of Lewis Wallace, received a telegram announcing the death of his grand nephew. He expects to receive further information tomorrow. The Wallace family has a plot in the Ogdensburg cemetery and it may be that the boy's remains will be interred there when they are brought to this country.
The following was published in The Ogdensburg Advance and St. Lawrence Weekly Democrat on 27 April 1911:
The body of Malcolm Knowles, the son of Horace G. Knowles, United States minister to Bolivia, who was killed last month in La Paz, on his seventh birthday, by being struck by a trolley pole falling from a car, will arrive in this city today for burial in the family plot in the Ogdensburg cemetery. Mr. Knowles and his family have been at La Paz since the first of the year. The boy who was killed was exceedingly bright, being able to speak besides English, French, German and Spanish quite fluently, and he had a superficial knowledge of other languages picked up with his father, who has been in the United States diplomatic corps for several years, during which he has served as minister to Romania, Servia and Bulgaria. When the body was started on its thirty-two days trip to the country, the casket was covered with American flags and placed on a gun carriage. It was then drawn to the transfer steamer by school children of La Paz. The steamer proceeded up the Pacific coast to the Isthmus of Panama, where the coffin was transferred to the Atlantic coast. At every point of transfer the body was escorted by details of soldiers representing the various countries and states though which it passed. Mrs. Knowles is a daughter of the late Lewis Wallace, brother of Frank D. Wallace of this city, and her father and other relatives are buried here. The former home of Mr. and Mrs. Knowles was at Wilmington, Del. They have a son Lewis aged 12 years.
The following was published in the Ogdensburg Journal on 17 March 1911:
The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Horace G. Knowles, the latter being the daughter of the late Lewis Wallace of this city, will be pained to hear of the accidental death of their youngest son, Malcolm Knowles, who was run over by a trolley car in the streets of La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday morning. Mr. Knowles is the US minister to Bolivia. The cablegram states that the foreign colony was greatly grieved by the occurrence. Malcolm was about 7 years old and the younger of the two boys of Mr. and Mrs. Knowles. The other boy, a lad of 11, is attending school in New York and is living with his grandmother, Mrs. Lewis Wallace. Frank Wallace, of this city, a brother of Lewis Wallace, received a telegram announcing the death of his grand nephew. He expects to receive further information tomorrow. The Wallace family has a plot in the Ogdensburg cemetery and it may be that the boy's remains will be interred there when they are brought to this country.
The following was published in The Ogdensburg Advance and St. Lawrence Weekly Democrat on 27 April 1911:
The body of Malcolm Knowles, the son of Horace G. Knowles, United States minister to Bolivia, who was killed last month in La Paz, on his seventh birthday, by being struck by a trolley pole falling from a car, will arrive in this city today for burial in the family plot in the Ogdensburg cemetery. Mr. Knowles and his family have been at La Paz since the first of the year. The boy who was killed was exceedingly bright, being able to speak besides English, French, German and Spanish quite fluently, and he had a superficial knowledge of other languages picked up with his father, who has been in the United States diplomatic corps for several years, during which he has served as minister to Romania, Servia and Bulgaria. When the body was started on its thirty-two days trip to the country, the casket was covered with American flags and placed on a gun carriage. It was then drawn to the transfer steamer by school children of La Paz. The steamer proceeded up the Pacific coast to the Isthmus of Panama, where the coffin was transferred to the Atlantic coast. At every point of transfer the body was escorted by details of soldiers representing the various countries and states though which it passed. Mrs. Knowles is a daughter of the late Lewis Wallace, brother of Frank D. Wallace of this city, and her father and other relatives are buried here. The former home of Mr. and Mrs. Knowles was at Wilmington, Del. They have a son Lewis aged 12 years.
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