BIRTH:
alternate date of birth: 23 March 1857.1860 US Census:
"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4FK-GL8 : 13 December 2017), Caraty Knowles in entry for John L Knowles, 1860.
OCCUPATION:
Clerk in the Farmers department store at Owensville, Indiana. according to _The Montgomerys and their Descendants_ (page 215)