Was born in Salem, Massachusetts, October 31, 1862, son of Edward Hale and Mary Meek (Russell) Knight. He traces his ancestry to John and Richard Knight, who emigrated from Romsey, County Hants England, in 1635, to Newbury, Massachusetts, being a lineal descendant in the eighth generation of the former and indirectly descended from the latter, and through the various marriage connections of his ancestors is descended from the Hale, Noyes, Jaqucs, Lowell, Little, Coffin, Brocklebank and other Essex county Massachusetts families. His mother's family, the Russell, were among the early settlers of Marblehead, that state. He was graduated at the Salem High School in 1879, at Harvard in 1883, and at the New York Homeopathic College and hospital in 1886. The succeeding two years were devoted chiefly to professional study at the Bellevue Medical College and Hospital, during which time he was the Resident Surgeon at Professor William Tod Helmuths Surgical Hospital, and also spent six months in the Hahnemann Hospital, New York. In 1888 he located in in Detroit, Michigan, where he has since resided. Shortly after settling there he was appointed House Surgeon at Grace Hospital, and from 1890 to the present time he has served as Surgeon to that institution and its Dispensary. He is Medical Examiner for the National Union and Federal Union; is local Surgeon for the Bankers Accident Insurance Company, and is similarly connected with other organizations. Dr. Knight has been Treasurer of the Detroit Physicians' Protective Association since 1893, and President of the Detroit Practitioners' Society, 1896-1897, and Corresponding Secretary of the Michigan State Medical Society in 1898. In 1896 he became Editor of the Medical Counselor and in 1898 was elected Secretary and also Professor of Surgery in the Detroit Homeopathic Medical College. He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, the Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the American Revolution, Detroit Commandery, Knights Templar, and the Athletic, Fellowraft, New England, and Congregational Clubs. In 1896 Detroit College made him a Master of arts. On October 16, 1890, he married Sarah Elizabeth Gifford, daughter of Rufus B. and Sarah E. (Hayward) Gifford, of Salem, Massachusetts. They have two sons: Hale Gifford Knight, born October 26, 1891 ; and Rufus Hay ward Knight, born July 6, 1895.

Universities and their Sons Vol 3 1899
byJoshua Lawrence Chamberlain, John De Witt, John Howard Van Amringe

Stephen Herrick Knight was horn at Salem, Massachusetts. October 31, 1862. His parents were Edward Hale and Mary Meek (Russell) Knight. Both the Knight and Russell families are among the kindred which has been identified with successive epochs of American history from Colonial times, and collaterally the relationship extends to other old and prominent families, among them the Hale. Adamses, Lowells, (same family as President Lowell of Harvard) and Coffins. The original Knight ancestor was John Knight, who came over from his home in the town of Konisey, county Hants, England, in 1635, settling at Newhuryport, Massachusetts. His son, John Knight, Jr., was born at Newbury port, and was the father of Captain Richard Knight, who was lx>m in Xcwburyimrt in nVo. and who was afterwards a dis- tinguished officer in the Indian wars. Captain Knight was the father of Edmund Knight, whose son Edmund (II) was at the siege of Boston, during the American Revolution. His son. Hale Knight, was the father of Albert, father of Edward Hale, the last named having been the father of Dr. Knight, who thus liclongcd to the tenth generation of the family in America.

The original American Russell in this ancestry was Lewis Russell, son of a French nobleman and a Huguenot. His parents attempted to dee from France during the Huguenot persecution, taking with them their son Lewis, then an infant of less than a year. They found a place on a vessel about to sail for America, but just before tnc departure of the ship, the |>areitts went ashore just what cause is not to be ascertained, and while on shore were captured ami put to death. Thus the vessel sailed without them, and carried the infant Lewis to America. The captain of the vessel adopted the child, and subso|Ucntly abandoned the sea and settled at Marhlehcad. Massachusetts. The son of Lewis Russell was John Russell, born at Marhlehcad. who U'came the father of John Rhodes Russell, who in turn served as an officer in the Louisherg Expedition at the beginning of the French and Indian war. and was subsequently an officer in the American Revolution, crossing the River Delaware with General Washington's troops. His name is perpetuated on the battle monument now standing at Trenton, New Jersey. John Rhodes Russell married Lois Hooper, whose father was a man of large property interests. They became the parents of a son, Samuel Hooper Russell, who served as a soldier in the war of 1812. He in turn was the father of Mary Meek Russell, mother of Dr. Knight.

Edward Hale Knight, father of the doctor, was born at Salem. Massachusetts, in the same house in which Nathaniel Hawthorne, a distant relative, was born. Mary Meek Russell was born at Marhlehcad, Massachusetts. It was from this long line of Americans, many of whom were distinguished by military achievement that Dr. Knight is descended. His own career as a physician has well upheld the standards and traditions of the Knight famiiy. After graduating from the Salem high school in Massachusetts, in 1879. he entered the Harvard University, taking his Itachclor's degree with the class of 1883. His professional preparation was begun in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York City, where he studied during 1885-86, and was graduated from the New York

History of Michigan Vol 3 by Charles Moore 1915