LICKING COUNTY OHIO
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"Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol 2" by Henry Howe. (pub 1888)

Licking County
Page 87

 There died in Homer, April 28, 1889, William Knowles, at the age of 83 years, 
where he had long been a resident.  He was born in England, emigrated when a 
young man, and was always poor in purse, but rich in Christian faith, and for a 
long time brightened the toilsome labor of making brooms for the support of a 
large family by venturing on airy flights in the realms of poetry.  One of his 
poems, "Betsy and I are One," appeared in the Toledo Blade, and received wide 
commendation. In a volume preserving the results of his winged excursions is 
another, wherein he epitomizes his own thoughts in the way of the desirable.