Frederick Lincoln Knight was born around 1861 in Albany, New York to Horace Barton Knight and Mary Hillman Knight. In the 1880s, he worked as a printer in St. Louis, Missouri. He married Calista A. Shore in Lucas, Iowa on July 1, 1882.
In the 1890s, Knight continued his career as a printer in Denver, where he was employed by the Smith-Brooks Printing Company. In 1894, he acquired land on Colorado’s Eastern plains and began taking landscape views. The following year he set up his photo tent in Akron, Colorado, south of the Republican newspaper office. His photo business kept him busy until his crops were ready to harvest.
By 1920, Knight lived in Lakeport, California, where he worked as a newspaper printer. He died in 1942.
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