Background
Knowlton, Ebenezer was born on December 6, 1815 in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, United States.
United States representative politician
Knowlton, Ebenezer was born on December 6, 1815 in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, United States.
He attended the China and Waterville Academies in Maine. He studied theology and entered the ministry as a Free Will Baptist.
Knowlton was elected as an Opposition Party (a party transitioning between the Whigs and Republicans) candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress from March 4, 1855 to March 3, 1857. Knowlton served as trustee of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Knowlton also served as a trustee of Colby College and Maine Central Institute, and after the Civil War he worked for the Freedmen"s Bureau in Beaufort, South Carolina.
He was a corporator of the Morning Star, a Free Will Baptist newspaper, and was president of the Foreign Missions Board.
Knowlton continued his ministerial duties until his death. Knowlton died in South Montville, Maine on September 10, 1874, and is interred in the South Montville City Cemetery.
Opposition Party, Republican Party.
Knowlton served as a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1844 to 1850, and served as speaker in 1846. He became an early member of the Republican Party and was a lifelong supporter of abolitionism and the temperance movement.