Knight, Frank H. (Frank Hyneman), 1885-1972

Born on November 7, 1885 in White Oak Township, McLean County, Illinois, Frank Hyneman Knight's early years were spent engaged in the work of his family's farm. At the age of twenty he finally began his post-secondary education, attending first American University in Harriman, Tennessee. Knight's first contact with the University of Chicago occurred during these early years: in the Summer Quarter of 1906 he took a mathematics and two upper-level physics courses at the University, garnering a recommendation from Richard Millikan, winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics.

American University closed in 1907, and Knight consequently enrolled in Milligan College in Elizabethton, Tennessee where he served as college secretary, taught secretarial subjects, and graduated in 1911 with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree. That same year, he married his classmate, Minerva Shelburne, from Pennington Gap, Virginia, with whom he had four children. The couple divorced in 1928.

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