Family History - Dr. Delia Gazlay Knight
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Delia Knight graduated from the Elementary Course of the Oshkosh Normal School in 1878. She was a high school teacher in Oskaloosa, Iowa, in the early 1880s. In 1886, Delia was selected to the chair of Natural and Physical Science at the Iowa State Normal School, a position she held until 1890. She left the Normal School for Boston where she became a professional nurse, having graduated from the Boston City Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1891. Delia wrote an article entitled “The Nurse and the Psychic Factor” that appeared in the very first volume of the American Journal of Nursing, November 1900.6, 7, 8
In 1907, Delia Gazlay Knight graduated from the American School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Missouri, and she is listed as a member in good standing in the New York City Society of the American Osteopathic Association as of 1 August 1907. She is shown as Dr. Delia G. Knight in various New York City directories from 1911 through 1920. The program for the November 1913 meeting of the New York City Society of the American Osteopathic Association lists, among other presentations, “My Experience with the Jireh Foods,” by Delia G. Knight.9, 10, 11
The 1920 US Census lists her, age 61, as a patient at the infamous Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital, Middletown, Orange County, New York, and she is similarly listed, at age 66, in the 1925 New York State Census.4
- U.S. Federal Census, 1860, Wisconsin, Racine County, City of Racine, Page No. 198, family of Albert G. Knight (52, Vermont, conveyaurio [?]); Sayrs. G. Knight (26, Vermont, lawyer); Mary H. Knight (16, Wis.); John Knight (9, Wis.); James Knight (6, Wis.); Delia Knight (2, Wis.); Simon Whiteley (29, England, printer); Jane K. Whiteley (24, NY).
- U.S. Federal Census, 1870, Wisconsin, Racine County, City of Racine, Page No. 25, family of Simon Whiteley (39, England, insurance agent); Jane Whiteley (34, N.Y.); Elizabeth Whiteley (2, Wis.); Albert Whiteley (8/12, Wis., Oct.); Delia Knight (12, Wis.); Barbery Servery (12, Wis., Dom. Servt.); Minney Lawson (20, Denmark, Dom. Servt.).
- U.S. Federal Census, 1880, Wisconsin, Racine County, Racine, Enumeration District 162, Page No. 8, family of Albert G. Knight (72, Vermont, abstract office); wife Anna Knight (34, Denmark); son John Knight (29, Wisconsin, fire insurance agent); daughter Delia Knight (22, Wisconsin); servant Marg Cowick (20, Wisconsin, servant).
- U.S. Federal Census, 1920, New York, Orange County, Middletown, Enumeration District 119, Sheet No. 15A, Delia G. Knight (61, Wisconsin, father from Vermont, mother from New York; patient).
- The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin, Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879, page 596, biographical sketch of Albert G. Knight. Digitized by Google and available at Google Books.
- Annual Catalog, Wisconsin State University (Oshkosh) School Year 1902-1903, Castle-Pierce Press, Oshkosh, 1903. Digitized copy available at Google Books.
- The Normal Eyte, The Normal School, Cedar Falls, Iowa, Vol. 7, No. 35, 11 June 1898. Digitized copy available online, University of Northern Iowa, Rod Library-Special Collections.
- Annual Report to the Trustees of the City Hospital, Boston. Issues 36-38, Pg 212. Digitized copy available at Google Books.
- 1907 American School of Osteopathy Graduation Program; image of program front cover and list of graduates available at Museum of Osteopathic Medicine (website).
- Journal of the New York City Society of the American Osteopathic Association, Volume 7, September 1907. Digitized copy available at Google Books.
- The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, Volume 13, December 1913. Digitized copy available at Google Books.