Mining Engineer
Centurion, 1908–1954
Born 20 November 1865 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 8 June 1954 in Santa Barbara, California
Buried Santa Barbara Cemetery
, Santa Barbara, California
Proposed by Thomas Shields Clarke and William A. Jenner
Elected 1 February 1908 at age forty-two
Century Memorial
Henry H. Knox was born in New York and educated at the Royal School of Mines at Freiberg, Saxony. He was a geologist and mining engineer and lived the early part of his life in London and there practiced his profession.
He came back to America to do some work as an assayer for Phelps Dodge and Company, and was elected to the Century in 1908. He went out West, however, first to Arizona and then to California, and took up a general consulting practice in engineering, which kept him on the Pacific Coast, so he seldom came to the Club—even [head hallman William] Daniel cannot remember him.
For the last forty years he lived in retirement at Santa Barbara, and there in his ninetieth year he died and there he is buried. Some fellow Centurions, living in Santa Barbara, knew him well and report that he was an extremely pleasant, friendly man with a remarkable interest in modern science, and that he followed the discoveries and developments in electronics with an informed competence.
George W. Martin
1955 Century Association Yearbook
