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Jesse Knight, the Glossary

Jesse Knight (6 September 1845 — 14 March 1921) was an American mining magnate, one of relatively few Latter-day Saints in 19th century Western America to find major success in the field.^[1]

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American prospectors
Brigham Young University people
Canadian city founders
Canadian prospectors
Knight family (Latter Day Saints)
Liberal Party (Utah) politicians
Settlers of Canada

Alberta

Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Anti-Mormonism is often used to describe people or literature that are critical of their adherents, institutions, or beliefs, or involve physical attacks against specific Mormons, or the Latter Day Saint movement as a whole.

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Brigham Young

Brigham Young (June 1, 1801August 29, 1877) was an American religious leader and politician. Jesse Knight and Brigham Young are American city founders and Mormon pioneers.

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Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University (BYU) is a private research university in Provo, Utah, United States.

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Company town

A company town is a place where practically all stores and housing are owned by the one company that is also the main employer.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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East Tintic Mountains

The East Tintic Mountains are a mountain range in central Juab, Utah, and Tooele counties in Utah, United States on the east margin of the Great Basin just west of the Wasatch Front about south-southeast of Salt Lake City.

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Eureka, Utah

Eureka is a city in Juab County, Utah, United States.

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Fifth Avenue

Fifth Avenue is a major and prominent thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States.

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Gilded Age

In United States history, the Gilded Age is described as the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era.

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Hall of Great Westerners

The Hall of Great Westerners was established by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 1958.

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Harold B. Lee Library

The Harold B. Lee Library (HBLL) is the main academic library of Brigham Young University (BYU) located in Provo, Utah.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Inez Knight Allen

Amanda Inez Knight Allen (September 8, 1876 – June 5, 1937) was a Mormon missionary and a Utah politician. Jesse Knight and Inez Knight Allen are Knight family (Latter Day Saints).

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Intermountain West

The Intermountain West, or Intermountain Region, is a geographic and geological region of the Western United States.

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Irrigation

Irrigation (also referred to as watering of plants) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns.

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James Moyle

James Henry Moyle (September 17, 1858 – February 20, 1946) was a prominent American politician in Utah and noted as "one of Utah's most distinguished citizens and one of the Nations' able and devoted servants.".

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Jesse Knight House

The Jesse Knight House, also known as the Knight Mansion, is a historic house in Provo, Utah, United States built for Jesse Knight. Jesse Knight and Jesse Knight House are Knight family (Latter Day Saints).

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Knightsville, Utah

Knightsville (also known as Knightville) is a ghost town located in the East Tintic Mountains on the northern slope of Godiva Mountain, approximately east of Eureka, in the northeastern corner of Juab County in central Utah, United States.

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L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library

The L. Tom Perry Special Collections is the special collections department of Brigham Young University (BYU)'s Harold B. Lee Library in Provo, Utah.

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Latter Day Saint movement

The Latter Day Saint movement (also called the LDS movement, LDS restorationist movement, or Smith–Rigdon movement) is the collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian Restorationist movement founded by Joseph Smith in the late 1820s.

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Liberal Party (Utah)

The Liberal Party was a political party established in the latter half of the 1800s in Utah Territory before the national Democrats and Republicans established themselves in Utah in the early 1890s.

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List of governors of Utah

The governor of Utah is the head of government of UtahUT Const.

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Mansion

A mansion is a large dwelling house.

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Market manipulation

In economics and finance, market manipulation is a type of market abuse where there is a deliberate attempt to interfere with the free and fair operation of the market; the most blatant of cases involve creating false or misleading appearances with respect to the price of, or market for, a product, security or commodity.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth.

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Mormon pioneers

The Mormon pioneers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated beginning in the mid-1840s until the late-1860s across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah.

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Mormon Trail

The Mormon Trail is the long route from Illinois to Utah on which Mormon pioneers (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) traveled from 1846–47.

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National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is a museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, with more than 28,000 Western and Native American art works and artifacts.

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Nauvoo, Illinois

Nauvoo (from the) is a small city in Hancock County, Illinois, United States, on the Mississippi River near Fort Madison, Iowa.

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Nebraska

Nebraska is a triply landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Newel Knight

Newel Knight (September 13, 1800 – January 11, 1847) was a close friend of Joseph Smith and one of the first branch presidents in the Latter-day Saint movement. Jesse Knight and Newel Knight are Knight family (Latter Day Saints).

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Nob Hill, San Francisco

Nob Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States that is known for its numerous luxury hotels and historic mansions.

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Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories (abbreviated NT or NWT; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; formerly North-West Territories) is a federal territory of Canada.

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Patent

A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.

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Philanthropy

Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives for the public good, focusing on quality of life".

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Polygamy

Polygamy (from Late Greek πολυγαμία, "state of marriage to many spouses") is the practice of marrying multiple spouses.

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Provo, Utah

Provo is a city in and the county seat of Utah County, Utah, United States.

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Ray Knight (rodeo organizer)

Oscar Raymond Knight (8 April 1872 – 7 February 1947) was a gold and silver miner, cattle rancher, large scale farmer, bank executive, industrialist, railroad executive, rodeo producer, rodeo stock contractor and rodeo champion. Jesse Knight and ray Knight (rodeo organizer) are American emigrants to Canada, Canadian Latter Day Saints, Knight family (Latter Day Saints) and Settlers of Canada.

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Raymond, Alberta

Raymond is a town in southern Alberta, Canada that is surrounded by the County of Warner No. 5.

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Robber baron (industrialist)

Robber baron is a term first applied as social criticism by 19th century muckrakers and others to certain wealthy, powerful, and unethical 19th-century American businessmen.

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Salt Lake Valley

Salt Lake Valley is a valley in Salt Lake County in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Utah.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Sugar

Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.

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Sugar beet

A sugar beet is a plant whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose and which is grown commercially for sugar production.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, tracing its roots to its founding by Joseph Smith during the Second Great Awakening.

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Tintic Standard Reduction Mill

The Tintic Standard Reduction Mill—also known as the Tintic Mill or Harold Mill—built in 1920, and only operating from 1921 to 1925, is an abandoned refinery or concentrator located on the west slope of Warm Springs Mountain on the southern edge of Genola, Utah, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Knight

, Yankee Headframe, 1908 Utah gubernatorial election.

Jesse Knight, the Glossary

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See also

American prospectors

Brigham Young University people

Canadian city founders

Canadian prospectors

Knight family (Latter Day Saints)

Liberal Party (Utah) politicians

Settlers of Canada

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