The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 291

FREDERICK W. McKNIGHT, M. D.

Dr. Frederick W. McKnight, well qualified by thorough preliminary training for
the active duties of his profession, is now successfully engaged in practice at
Cle Elum. He was born in Ironton, Ohio, December 16, 1877, a son of John T. and
Mary Katherine (Hall) McKnight.	The father was a merchant who for a long period
conducted business at Ironton, Ohio, where he also filled the office of county
treasurer. He was prominent in the public life of his community, exerting
considerable influence over public thought and action.

Frederick W. McKnight obtained a high school education and afterward spent two
years as a student in Cornell University. Later he entered the George
Washington University, from which he was graduated in 1909. He won the general
prize of fifty dollars in gold for the highest scholarship average-ninety and
three-tenths per cent, for the four years. He also won the Henry C. Yarrow prize
in dermatology and the William K. Butler prize in ophthalmology. Following his
graduation he became interne in the University Hospital and also served in a
similar capacity at the Children's Hospital in Washington, D. C. For a few
months he practiced in West Virginia, but the opportunities of the growing
northwest attracted him and he came to Kittitas county in 1912. He located at
Cle Elum in 1913 and has since practiced there. He has served as deputy county
health officer, also as city health officer and is at present a member of Cle
Elum school board and in addition has enjoyed an extensive private practice. He
also practiced for a year at Roslyn but during the greater period of his
residence in the northwest has given his attention to general practice in Cle
Elum. He is physician and surgeon for the Northern Pacific Railway and the
Milwaukee Railway Company and also for a number of large lumber companies and
coal companies. He specializes also in examinations for insurance and government
work. He does a great amount of surgery and is particularly skilled in that
field. He keeps in touch with the trend of modern professional thought and
scientific investigation and his practice has placed him prominently in the
front rank among able physicians and surgeons of this part of the state.

In 1901 Doctor McKnight was married to Miss Corinne Evans, of Los Angeles,
California, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George McClure of that city and they now
have two sons: John T. and Robert Abbott McKnight. Doctor McKnight belongs to
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and also to the Fraternal Order of
Eagles. His political allegiance is given to the republican party but he has no
aspiration for public honors or office, feeling that his time is fully occupied
by his professional duties, which he discharges with a sense of conscientious
obligation that has been productive of excellent results.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.