Biographical Sketch of Hon. A. Leo Knott: With a Relation of Some Political Transactions in Maryland, 1861-1867; Being the History of the Redemption of a State (Classic Reprint)
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Mr. A. Leo Knott is a native of Frederick county, Maryland. He received the first rudiments of a classical education in St. John's College, Frederick, an institution of learning founded and conducted by the Jesuits and of considerable note and promi nence in its day.
On the removal of his family to Baltimore he entered St. Mary's College in this city. This College was founded in 1791 by the celebrated Sulpician Order of French Catholic Priests, who had taken refuge in Maryland from the storms of the French Revolution. From this institution, after a six years' course, Mr. Knott was graduated with honor; and he subsequently received from it the degree of A. M. St. Mary's Col lege enjoyed a high reputation among the educational establishments of our country, and numbered among its alumni some of the most distinguished citizens of our own State, as the late Archbishop Eccleston, Governors Bradford and Bowie, Hon. 8. Teackle Wallis, Hon. J H. B. Latrobe, Hon. Frederick W. Pinkney, Hon. Re yerdy Johnson, Jr., Francis King, Rev.
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