Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

E. R. KNOWLTON, dealer in grain, hard and soft coal and wood, Joliet; is a son of Calvin 
KNOWLTON, President of the Will County National Bank; be was born, in Worcester, Mass., Jan. 
23, 1844; at the age of 7 years, he accompanied his parents to New Albany, Ind.; thence 
shortly afterward to Michigan City, and, in 1856, to Joliet; he attended the public schools 
of this city. His first business experience was in the hay business in Matteson, Cook Co., 
IL, where he remained about two years; he then returned to Worcester Co., Mass., and engaged 
in farming, and after six years, came again to Joliet, since which time he has been in the 
grain business here. He was married Jan. 11, 1865, to Miss Alice J. WHEELER, of Matteson, 
Cook Co., IL, and has one child - Mary L.