Identity:
Jonathan Knight was an educator, surveyor, state legislator, and congressman.
Life:
He served three years as county commissioner. In 1822 he was elected to the legislature and served six years. In 1854 he was elected a representative in the thirty-fourth congress from Pennsylvania.
In 1825 he was appointed a commissioner to extend the national road from Wheeling through Ohio and Indiana to the eastern line of Illinois. He was the chief engineer of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1829-42.
Bibliography:
Who Was Who in America. Historical Volume, 1607-1896, Chicago, 1963, p. 298; Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography, p. 562.