Janette Hill Knox

Janette Hill Knox (January 24, 1845 – July 28, 1920) was an American temperance reformer, suffragist, teacher, author and editor.

She went to Boston University in 1877 for special studies in English literature and modern languages and received the degree of A. M., with her husband, from the School of All Sciences in 1879.

[1] Later, Knox earned a Ph.D. at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania and taught for many years at Red River Valley University (Methodist Episcopal), Wahpeton, North Dakota.

About this time, Mrs. Knox became interested in the WCTU, due partly to the fact that she was a distant relative of Frances Willard.

[1] A suffragist, Knox was elected vice-president of the Equal Suffrage Association of North Dakota in 1901 at the organization's annual conference.

[7] During the opening years of the 20th century, the Knox family moved East once more, settling in Boston, Massachusetts.

Mrs. Knox immediately resumed her work in connection with the WCTU, and was elected corresponding secretary of the Massachusetts State Union, holding that position for another eight years.

Knox died at the home of another niece, Mrs. Verne F. Miles, Bradford, Vermont, July 28, 1920,[a] having been accompanied there by Nettie and Olive for a vacation.