Background
Her father was a cousin of the founders of the Macmillan Publishing Company, Daniel and his brother Alexander Macmillan.
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Annie Knott
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Career
Her family emigrated to Ontario, Canada when she was a girl and she grew up there. In 1878, they moved to England, where he had been born. While in the London area and acting on a long-held desire to help the sick, she did volunteer work in local hospitals, although she was herself in poor health with bronchitis and other ailments.
She began investigating alternatives to medicine, such as homeopathy.
They soon had another child, a boy. One afternoon, when this child was approaching his second birthday, Knott heard him screaming in the kitchen and discovered he"d swallowed much of a bottle of disinfectant, carbolic acid.
Doctors arrived shortly and said they didn"t expect him to survive and if he did, he"d never be able to swallow normally. The child was soon relieved from pain and the next morning, recovered completely, helping himself to an apple he found in the pantry.
The experience changed Knott.
She then began offering to help others She also had primary class instruction with a Christian Scientist. Her letter, along with those from Maybury, James East. Scripps, Doctorate. Augustus Straker and more than 50 others, was sealed in a metal box at midnight on December 31, 1900.
