Mr. Knox was born May 15, 1870, in Rome, N. Y., where he received a public school education. In 1883 he became a clerk in a shoe store in his native city, and remained there until 1886, when he cane to New York and assumed a similar position in an uptown shoe house, which he held for a year and a half. In 1888 he entered the service of Best & Co. on Twenty-third Street, New York, as a shoe salesman, and became assistant buyer in the shoe department. He resigned this position February 24, 1897, and engaged in the real estate and insurance business at Union Hill, N. J., where he resides, having settled there in 1893. He has displayed energy, excellent judgment, and ability, and since he established himself in business he has gained a high reputation and the confidence and esteem of the community. His specialty has been that of building houses and selling them on easy payments. In one year he disposed of no less than twenty-four houses in this way. He has done much toward the building up of the northern part of Union Hill. He is a man of energy, integrity, ability, and keen judgment, and in the prosecution of a constantly increasing business has been successful. As a citizen he is public spirited, enterprising, progressive, and patriotic.

He is Collector of Arrears for the Town of Union, having been appointed in October, 1898, to fill the unexpired term of the late John M. Myer, and elected in March, 1899. He was one of the organizers and the first President (1899) of the new hook and ladder company of the Town of Union, and is a member of the Democratic Central Organization, of the Royal Arcanum, of the Woodcliff Club, and of North Hudson Tent, No. 10, K. O. T. M.