Son of Dr. Isaac H. D. Knowles and his wife Sarah Lavinia (nee Short).
Husband of Edith Ella Wallace Knowles, of Ogdensburg, New York and New York City, whom Horace wed in St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, Madison Avenue, on 20 April 1897. It was written about their wedding, "It was a very brilliant affair even for New York, with more than 500 guests entertained at the home of the bride." The couple divorced sometime prior to Spring 1920. (Edith remarried, in Los Angeles, California, to William Mercer Steele in 1926.)
Father of Lewis Wallace Knowles (husband of Mary E.), born 9 December 1899 in Wilmington, New Castle Co., Delaware, died 21 January 1974 in Lumberton, Burlington Co., New Jersey.
Father, also, of Georgiana Knowles, born and died on 3 September 1901; then of Malcolm Gardner Knowles, born 15 March 1904, killed on his seventh birthday, 15 March 1911, by a pole falling from a trolley car in La Paz, Bolivia, South America.
Brother of Isaac H., Lewis, and Harry Knowles.
Friend of U.S. Presidents and of foreign monarchs, leaders, and dignitaries.
Horace, age 74, passed away in his sleep, at approximately 11p.m., in his Manhattan residence of five years, 145 East 46th Street, the result of a heart attack.
His funeral service took place in historic Grace Church, Broadway at 10th Street, Manhattan, on Friday, November 5 at 10:30a.m.
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The following excerpted article was published in The Ogdensburg Journal, Ogdensburg, NY, on Tuesday, 3/24/1908, page 4:
THANKED BY THE KING
H. G. Knowles and Wife Win Social Triumphs.
AT THE ROUMANIAN COURT....
....Sunday's World printed the following special correspondence, from Bucharest:
His Majesty King Charles granted an audience today to American Minister [U.S. ambassador] Horace G. Knowles and expressed his thanks and those of his court for the courtesy and kindness shown to Roumanian society and the King's friends by the Minister and Mrs. Knowles. They gave a ball in the American Legation building last night, which was the largest and most successful in the history of this gay capital of Eastern Europe.
This unusual compliment emphasizes the social triumph which the American Minister and his wife achieved last evening. The ball...was the first social function of the kind ever given by an American Minister in Bucharest. There were over 200 guests, including Crown Prince Ferdinand, Crown Princess Marie [a granddaughter of Queen Victoria], the members of the Cabinet and their wives, all the diplomats and the most prominent representatives of the social and political life of Roumania....
The royal party arrived at 10:45 and was met at the entrance by Mr. and Mrs. Knowles. The Prince and Princess announced that they would leave at 2 a. m., but it was after 4 o'clock when they departed, so well had they enjoyed their entertainment.
The beautiful Crown Princess wore an exquisite gown, made for the occasion, and her corsage was a mass of diamonds, emeralds, sapphires and pearls, and she never looked more charming than when she opened the ball with a waltz with the American Minister.
The cotillion...lasted for over two hours....
...(T)he Crown Princess...selected Minister Knowles to dance the figure. The orchestra struck up Sousa's "Hands Across the Sea," and the cheers broke out again and again, the ladies waving their handkerchiefs....
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[Presented research and this Find A Grave biography by memorial sponsor David P. Wilson. Please credit accordingly.]
Husband of Edith Ella Wallace Knowles, of Ogdensburg, New York and New York City, whom Horace wed in St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, Madison Avenue, on 20 April 1897. It was written about their wedding, "It was a very brilliant affair even for New York, with more than 500 guests entertained at the home of the bride." The couple divorced sometime prior to Spring 1920. (Edith remarried, in Los Angeles, California, to William Mercer Steele in 1926.)
Father of Lewis Wallace Knowles (husband of Mary E.), born 9 December 1899 in Wilmington, New Castle Co., Delaware, died 21 January 1974 in Lumberton, Burlington Co., New Jersey.
Father, also, of Georgiana Knowles, born and died on 3 September 1901; then of Malcolm Gardner Knowles, born 15 March 1904, killed on his seventh birthday, 15 March 1911, by a pole falling from a trolley car in La Paz, Bolivia, South America.
Brother of Isaac H., Lewis, and Harry Knowles.
Friend of U.S. Presidents and of foreign monarchs, leaders, and dignitaries.
Horace, age 74, passed away in his sleep, at approximately 11p.m., in his Manhattan residence of five years, 145 East 46th Street, the result of a heart attack.
His funeral service took place in historic Grace Church, Broadway at 10th Street, Manhattan, on Friday, November 5 at 10:30a.m.
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The following excerpted article was published in The Ogdensburg Journal, Ogdensburg, NY, on Tuesday, 3/24/1908, page 4:
THANKED BY THE KING
H. G. Knowles and Wife Win Social Triumphs.
AT THE ROUMANIAN COURT....
....Sunday's World printed the following special correspondence, from Bucharest:
His Majesty King Charles granted an audience today to American Minister [U.S. ambassador] Horace G. Knowles and expressed his thanks and those of his court for the courtesy and kindness shown to Roumanian society and the King's friends by the Minister and Mrs. Knowles. They gave a ball in the American Legation building last night, which was the largest and most successful in the history of this gay capital of Eastern Europe.
This unusual compliment emphasizes the social triumph which the American Minister and his wife achieved last evening. The ball...was the first social function of the kind ever given by an American Minister in Bucharest. There were over 200 guests, including Crown Prince Ferdinand, Crown Princess Marie [a granddaughter of Queen Victoria], the members of the Cabinet and their wives, all the diplomats and the most prominent representatives of the social and political life of Roumania....
The royal party arrived at 10:45 and was met at the entrance by Mr. and Mrs. Knowles. The Prince and Princess announced that they would leave at 2 a. m., but it was after 4 o'clock when they departed, so well had they enjoyed their entertainment.
The beautiful Crown Princess wore an exquisite gown, made for the occasion, and her corsage was a mass of diamonds, emeralds, sapphires and pearls, and she never looked more charming than when she opened the ball with a waltz with the American Minister.
The cotillion...lasted for over two hours....
...(T)he Crown Princess...selected Minister Knowles to dance the figure. The orchestra struck up Sousa's "Hands Across the Sea," and the cheers broke out again and again, the ladies waving their handkerchiefs....
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[Presented research and this Find A Grave biography by memorial sponsor David P. Wilson. Please credit accordingly.]
Son of Dr. Isaac H. D. Knowles and his wife Sarah Lavinia (nee Short).
Husband of Edith Ella Wallace Knowles, of Ogdensburg, New York and New York City, whom Horace wed in St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, Madison Avenue, on 20 April 1897. It was written about their wedding, "It was a very brilliant affair even for New York, with more than 500 guests entertained at the home of the bride." The couple divorced sometime prior to Spring 1920. (Edith remarried, in Los Angeles, California, to William Mercer Steele in 1926.)
Father of Lewis Wallace Knowles (husband of Mary E.), born 9 December 1899 in Wilmington, New Castle Co., Delaware, died 21 January 1974 in Lumberton, Burlington Co., New Jersey.
Father, also, of Georgiana Knowles, born and died on 3 September 1901; then of Malcolm Gardner Knowles, born 15 March 1904, killed on his seventh birthday, 15 March 1911, by a pole falling from a trolley car in La Paz, Bolivia, South America.
Brother of Isaac H., Lewis, and Harry Knowles.
Friend of U.S. Presidents and of foreign monarchs, leaders, and dignitaries.
Horace, age 74, passed away in his sleep, at approximately 11p.m., in his Manhattan residence of five years, 145 East 46th Street, the result of a heart attack.
His funeral service took place in historic Grace Church, Broadway at 10th Street, Manhattan, on Friday, November 5 at 10:30a.m.
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The following excerpted article was published in The Ogdensburg Journal, Ogdensburg, NY, on Tuesday, 3/24/1908, page 4:
THANKED BY THE KING
H. G. Knowles and Wife Win Social Triumphs.
AT THE ROUMANIAN COURT....
....Sunday's World printed the following special correspondence, from Bucharest:
His Majesty King Charles granted an audience today to American Minister [U.S. ambassador] Horace G. Knowles and expressed his thanks and those of his court for the courtesy and kindness shown to Roumanian society and the King's friends by the Minister and Mrs. Knowles. They gave a ball in the American Legation building last night, which was the largest and most successful in the history of this gay capital of Eastern Europe.
This unusual compliment emphasizes the social triumph which the American Minister and his wife achieved last evening. The ball...was the first social function of the kind ever given by an American Minister in Bucharest. There were over 200 guests, including Crown Prince Ferdinand, Crown Princess Marie [a granddaughter of Queen Victoria], the members of the Cabinet and their wives, all the diplomats and the most prominent representatives of the social and political life of Roumania....
The royal party arrived at 10:45 and was met at the entrance by Mr. and Mrs. Knowles. The Prince and Princess announced that they would leave at 2 a. m., but it was after 4 o'clock when they departed, so well had they enjoyed their entertainment.
The beautiful Crown Princess wore an exquisite gown, made for the occasion, and her corsage was a mass of diamonds, emeralds, sapphires and pearls, and she never looked more charming than when she opened the ball with a waltz with the American Minister.
The cotillion...lasted for over two hours....
...(T)he Crown Princess...selected Minister Knowles to dance the figure. The orchestra struck up Sousa's "Hands Across the Sea," and the cheers broke out again and again, the ladies waving their handkerchiefs....
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[Presented research and this Find A Grave biography by memorial sponsor David P. Wilson. Please credit accordingly.]
Husband of Edith Ella Wallace Knowles, of Ogdensburg, New York and New York City, whom Horace wed in St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, Madison Avenue, on 20 April 1897. It was written about their wedding, "It was a very brilliant affair even for New York, with more than 500 guests entertained at the home of the bride." The couple divorced sometime prior to Spring 1920. (Edith remarried, in Los Angeles, California, to William Mercer Steele in 1926.)
Father of Lewis Wallace Knowles (husband of Mary E.), born 9 December 1899 in Wilmington, New Castle Co., Delaware, died 21 January 1974 in Lumberton, Burlington Co., New Jersey.
Father, also, of Georgiana Knowles, born and died on 3 September 1901; then of Malcolm Gardner Knowles, born 15 March 1904, killed on his seventh birthday, 15 March 1911, by a pole falling from a trolley car in La Paz, Bolivia, South America.
Brother of Isaac H., Lewis, and Harry Knowles.
Friend of U.S. Presidents and of foreign monarchs, leaders, and dignitaries.
Horace, age 74, passed away in his sleep, at approximately 11p.m., in his Manhattan residence of five years, 145 East 46th Street, the result of a heart attack.
His funeral service took place in historic Grace Church, Broadway at 10th Street, Manhattan, on Friday, November 5 at 10:30a.m.
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The following excerpted article was published in The Ogdensburg Journal, Ogdensburg, NY, on Tuesday, 3/24/1908, page 4:
THANKED BY THE KING
H. G. Knowles and Wife Win Social Triumphs.
AT THE ROUMANIAN COURT....
....Sunday's World printed the following special correspondence, from Bucharest:
His Majesty King Charles granted an audience today to American Minister [U.S. ambassador] Horace G. Knowles and expressed his thanks and those of his court for the courtesy and kindness shown to Roumanian society and the King's friends by the Minister and Mrs. Knowles. They gave a ball in the American Legation building last night, which was the largest and most successful in the history of this gay capital of Eastern Europe.
This unusual compliment emphasizes the social triumph which the American Minister and his wife achieved last evening. The ball...was the first social function of the kind ever given by an American Minister in Bucharest. There were over 200 guests, including Crown Prince Ferdinand, Crown Princess Marie [a granddaughter of Queen Victoria], the members of the Cabinet and their wives, all the diplomats and the most prominent representatives of the social and political life of Roumania....
The royal party arrived at 10:45 and was met at the entrance by Mr. and Mrs. Knowles. The Prince and Princess announced that they would leave at 2 a. m., but it was after 4 o'clock when they departed, so well had they enjoyed their entertainment.
The beautiful Crown Princess wore an exquisite gown, made for the occasion, and her corsage was a mass of diamonds, emeralds, sapphires and pearls, and she never looked more charming than when she opened the ball with a waltz with the American Minister.
The cotillion...lasted for over two hours....
...(T)he Crown Princess...selected Minister Knowles to dance the figure. The orchestra struck up Sousa's "Hands Across the Sea," and the cheers broke out again and again, the ladies waving their handkerchiefs....
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[Presented research and this Find A Grave biography by memorial sponsor David P. Wilson. Please credit accordingly.]
