California Biographies
Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
 
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Source:
History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
With Biographical Sketches
History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry
Illustrated, Complete In One Volume
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914


CHARLES LINTON KNIGHT.� A man who has been connected 
with different lumber mills on the Mendocino coast in one way or another is 
Charles L. Knight, who was born in Brownsville, Pa., May 5. 1860, the son 
of .Abel and Ann (Linton) Knight, natives of Pennsylvania, who removed 
to Tonganoxie, Kan., in 1866, and to Mendocino county in 1875. Here the 
father was employed at lumbering for a time, lint retired and spent his last 
days in Haywoods. 

Charles Linton Knight was educated in the public schools of Tonganoxie, 
Kan. In 1877 he arrived at Point Arena, Cal., but located at Schooner Gulch, 
and the same year began work in the lumber industry in Amasa Saunders' 
mill of that place. He continued there until 1880. when he entered the employ 
of the Gualala Lumber Company, in which he worked his way up to edger, 
later to sawyer and afterwards was made mill foreman, a position he held 
with Mie company for thirteen years out of twenty-three employed by them. 
When the company sold to eastern parties he came to Greenwood, where he 
spent one year with the L. E. White Lumber Company as mill foreman. In 
March, 1904, he came to Mendocino as mill foreman for the Mendocino Lum- 
ber Company, a position he has filled faithfully ever since. 

Mr. Knight was first married in Gualala to Miss Eleanora Coats, a 
native daughter. She died in Gualala. leaving two children, Charles Chester, 
who is assistant manager of the Crescent Wharf and Warehouse Company at 
San Pedro ; and Edith Ella, who died when eleven years of age. His second 
marriage united him with Miss Kate Randolph, of Point Arena, and of this 
union there are two children, Gladys, a graduate of the Los Angeles State 
Normal, and now taking a special course at the Santa Barbara Normal, and 
Laurence, attending the Mendocino high school. For many years he was 
trustee of the Gualala school district, and is a Republican. Fraternally he 
is a member of the Point Arena Lodge and Encampment of the Odd Fellows. 
and also the Rebekahs, as well as a member of the lumbermen's association 
known as the Hoo Hoos.