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Tom Knight standing in front of his home in 1959. [print copy date June 1984]
"Thomas Knight was born near French Lick, Ind. May 28, 1886 and completed his education at Central Normal College, Ill. He first came to Colorado with his parents and brother, Robert in 1908. ... He first came to Eagle County in 1929 from Canon City and went to work for the Empire Zinc...until his retirement in 1949." --Eagle Valley Enterprise Aug. 11, 1960
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Front: "Main Office E.Z.;" verso: "Mine office at Gilman, Healy's Grocery to the right"
E.Z. noted above was "Empire Zinc Co., formed in 1902 to search for and develop zinc mines in the west. The Eagle mine, operated by the Empire Zinc Division of the New Jersey Zinc Company at Gilman, Colorado, thirty miles west of the Continental Divide, was acquired in 1915." -- The First Hundred Years of the New Jersey Zinc Company, p.29
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