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William Hyer Knowles

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{{Infobox Biography
| subject_name =William Hyer Knowles
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| image_size =288px
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| date_of_birth =[[December 27]], [[1857]]
| place_of_birth =near Pensacola
| date_of_death =[[1939]]
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| occupation =Banker
| religion =[[:Category:Episcopalians|Episcopalian]]
| spouse =[[Mary Knowles|Mary Davis Ellis]]
| parents =[[Peter H. Knowles|Peter H.]] and [[Josephine Hyer Knowles]]
| children =[[Ellis Knowles]]<br/>[[Josephine Knowles Seligman]]<br/>[[Jeannie Knowles Fay]]<br/>[[Peter Knowles]]<br/>[[William Hyer Knowles, Jr.]]
}}

'''William Hyer Knowles''' was a prominent Pensacolian businessman.

William was born to Peter H. and Josephine Hyer Knowles near Pensacola on [[December 27]], [[1857]]. He was educated in private schools in Pensacola, and later briefly attended the [[Wikipedia:Sewanee: The University of the South|University of the South]] in Tennessee, but did not earn a degree. In [[1876]] he entered the banking firm of [[Knowles and Brent]], in which his brother [[L. P. Knowles]] was already engaged with [[Francis Celestino Brent]]. The firm was at some point renamed [[F. C. Brent and Company]] and was later merged into the [[First National Bank]].

Knowles was married on [[November 25]], [[1885]] in Newbern, North Carolina to [[Mary Knowles|Mary Davis Ellis]], whose father served as the governor of North Carolina in [[1861]].

[[Category:Deceased persons|Knowles, William Hyer]] [[Category:Bankers|Knowles, William Hyer]] [[Category:Episcopalians|Knowles, William Hyer]] [[Category:People buried in St. John's Cemetery|Knowles, William Hyer]]