The collection contains three items: one letter (TLS) from the Secretary to the President, John Addison Porter, Executive Mansion, 30 Apr. 1898 to P. C. Knox, re his brother Dr. S. B. P. Knox; one document, signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary to the Navy, thanking S.B. P. Knox, M.D., for contributions to the "Eyes for the Navy" appeal, undated; and one "Personal Military and Civil History," filed by Knox with the Soldiers and Sailors Historical and Benevolent Society of Washington, D.C., 1914. Knox was a surgeon during the Civil War with the 49th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He later was a resident of Santa Barbara was a charter member of Starr-King Post No. 52, Department of California and Nevada, Grand Army of the Republic, and was its first Surgeon. He also was President of the Board of Trustees of the Santa Barbara Public Library for 22 years.

.02 linear feet (1 folder)

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