1. "Hosea M. Knowlton"
Posted by harry on Dec-18th-02 at 11:19 AM

For the Borden almanac: 100 years to the day, December 18, 1902, Knowlton passed away at his home in Marion.

Wow, he couldn't have been that old. (Mabe Lizzie took a few years off of his life)

Kat put together a list of case-related people who died pretty soon after the trial.

check it out at:
http://lizzieandrewborden.com/GoneTooSoon.htm

Those that lived the longest were ATTNY. Gen. Pillsbury (1930), Alice Russell (1941), and Arthur Phillips (!941).

Isn't it interesting that ill health kept Pillsbury from taking the case himself, yet he outlived most of the principals?

(1847 - 1902) HMK.

Do you suppose it was Stress which contributed to Knowlton's early demise?

There is a website about members of the Knowlton family over several generations. It is

www.knowlton.org/genregn

Hosea M. Knowlton is listed on this website and the listing states he died of a stroke. The same listing also says he died at his home in Marion, ME (not MA), and that he became Attorney General of Maine (not MA) in 1894. The listing correctly states that Knowlton was born in Durham, Maine, but we know he spent his adult life in Massachusetts.

(Message last edited Dec-19th-02  5:34 PM.)

The link shown in my post above does not seem to work. Instead try

www.knowlton.org

Click on Genealogy, then click on Descendants of William Knowlton, then click on Index of People and scan the listings for Hosea Morrill's name and dates of birth and death. Click Hosea Morrill's listing(s) for specific information about him.

I hope you all read AR Brown's book, about the mysterious death of Wm S Borden. Was it in anyway related to Knowlton's later death? Those who spent more time researching this may be able to answer. AR Brown definitely points the finger at some powerful figure (no, not that finger).

The reason I ask is that I worked in NY city during the 1970s. In Oct 1971 there was a lot of talk about the assassination of an ex-Mafia figure in Central Park on Columbus Day. (This is NOT mentioned in Curt Gentry's book on J Edgar Hoover.) Weeks later, the "NY Times" ran a story on how Hoover tried to stop Joe Columbo's(?) magazine, but he refused. Then the FBI put pressure on organized crime to get them to stop the magazine. The killing then occurred. People saw the alleged shooter (a pornography photographer?), but NO ONE saw who shot the shooter. Just like Oswald in Dallas!

Six months later Hoover was found dead of an unforeseen heart attack. Was this some kind of payback, or just eliminating an embarassment to the Nixon govt? "Parallax View" shows the use of a "heart attack pill". Something similar used to kill Pope John Paul I?

Nothing more than "post hoc ergo propter hoc" here. But we later found out that Hoover was on the outs with Nixon because Hoover would not go along with Nixon's plans for "homeland security".

I read and enjoyed Jim Marrs' "Rule By Secrecy". The chapters on the 20th century track my knowledge of the events.

http://www.knowlton.org/genregn.htm#t37

Thanks, Doug.
I looked under Generation Three.
Yes, the bio is a bit wrong, according to Hoffman & Knowlton Papers Glossary A:

"KNOWLTON, HOSEA MORRILL 1847 - 1902: born in Durham, Maine, son of Rev. Isaac Case and Mary Smith (Wellington) Knowlton. The itinerant nature of his father's profession caused him to be educated in several school systems. Preparation for college was done at high schools in Oldtown and Bangor, Maine, as well as Keene, New Hampshire, then at Powers Institute in Bernardston, Massachusetts. His father's appointment as pastor of the Universalist Church in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1866 caused his family to relocate there. Following his graduation from Tufts University in 1867, he read law in the office of Edwin L. Barney, Esq. in New Bedford and also attended Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1870 and subsequently opened an office in New Bedford, entering a partnership with Attorney Barney which lasted seven years. He began public service in 1872 when he was appointed registrar of bankruptcy for the First District in Massachusetts, an office he held until its abolishment in 1878. In 1873, he married Miss Sylvia Bassett Almy of New Bedford. He was a member of the New Bedford school committee from 1874 to 1877. He served as city solicitor in 1877, as a representative to the state legislature from 1876 to 1877 and as state senator from 1878 to 1879. Following this, he was named district attorney of the Southern District of Massachusetts, a position he held until January 1, 1894. At this time, he resigned to become attorney general for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, an office to which he was reelected five times. He served on various boards as a director, among them the Edison Electric Light Company of New Bedford and Citizens' National Bank, also of that city. He was a trustee of Tufts University and, from 1872, a member of the Universalist Society. In June of 1893, in his capacity as district attorney for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, he headed the prosecution against Miss Lizzie A. Borden, on trial for the murders of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Borden. Though the verdict was not in favor of the Commonwealth, he received praise from a multitude of sources for his masterful handling of the prosecution. He died at his summer home in Marion, Massachusetts."

--When they say "attended Harvard" they don't necessarily mean he graduated there, do they?
--He married An Almy (of the BASSETT sort?)

(Message last edited Dec-20th-02  4:38 AM.)

Also try:
http://www.s-t.com/daily/08-98/08-08-98/t03ho135.htm
H.M. Knowlton's home during the trial.

From Our Society Archives stored at the LABVM/L
http://www.lizzieandrewborden.com/ArchiveLthreads.htm


This might be the setting (for real) for the scene with Mrs. Knowlton (in The Legend Movie) in their dining room where she finally voices some opinion on the case!


(Message last edited Dec-20th-02  4:58 AM.)