Richard Greene Howland Knight, Jr

1917 -

• Name	Richard Greene Howland Knight
  Suffix	Jr
  Birth	16 Jul 1917
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I342223160063	Tripp Family Genealogical Website | Joseph Tripp 2

  
  

  Father	Richard Greene Howland Knight,   b. 18 Jul 1888, Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
  Mother	Laura Fenner,   b. 13 Jan 1886, Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA d. 24 Aug 1964, Providence, Rhode Island, USA (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	15 Feb 1913	Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
  Family ID	F53136	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Gladys Elaine McCrossan
  Marriage	20 Dec 1947	Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
  Children	1. Living   2. Living   3. Benjamin Fenner Knight   4. Christopher Greene Knight
  Family ID	F53139	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Richard Greene Howland Knight Junior, is my 9th Cousin. He was educated in the Fall River Schools and graduated from B.M.C.Durfee Highschool in 1934, He Graduated from Lowell Textile School, Lowell, Massachusetts ( 1938 ). He went to work at thhe Berkshire Company mill at Fall River, Massachusetts. On 8 February 1941, he was drafted into the Coastal Artillery, a branch of the United States Army and sent to Fort Preble, South Portland Maine. In the Spring of 1942, he was ordered to OCS, Anti Aircraft School in South Carolina, and graduated as a 2nd Lt. He was ordered to Radar School at Fort Monroe, Virginia. In November of 1942, he was ordered to Hawaii for the major part of World War II. His radar unit was located on the eastern side of the Island of Oahu. Returning to Fall River, he went to work in the Efficientcy Department of the Berkshire Fine Spinning Company. In 1951, he moved to Corham, Maine, as Superintendant of the Dana Warp Mill at Westbrook, Maine. In 11959, he returned to Fall River as the Superintendant of the Berkshire Hathaway Company's Parker mill. The family lived in Fall River for one year before settling in Westport, Massachusetts. In 1963, he went to work for the Wabasso Cotton Textile Company and the family moved to Trois-Rivieres, P. Quebec, Canada. He was Manager of Grey Operations and a Director of the company. He retired in 1979 to seasonal homes at Naples, Florida and Loan Lake, Maine. This information has come to me from Richard Greene Howland Knight III, and is much appreciated by all future readers and Herman William Tripp--Remembering......