Introduction

Biography

Charles was the son of Ge­ne­ral John Jay Knox and Sar­ah Cur­tiss, and hus­band of Sar­ah Fake (mar­ried 1860).

He gra­du­at­ed from Ham­il­ton College, Clin­ton, New York (AB 1856, AM 1859); at­tend­ed Au­burn Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry, New York Ci­ty (1856–57); and gra­du­at­ed from Un­ion Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry, New York Ci­ty, in 1859.

After be­ing li­censed by the Pres­by­te­ry of New York in 1859, Knox was a tu­tor at Ham­il­ton Col­lege (1859–60); act­ing pas­tor of the Re­formed Church, Uti­ca, New York (1860–62); stat­ed sup­ply at Os­we­go, New York (1862–63); and at Mor­ris­town, New Jer­sey (1863–64).

The Pres­by­te­ry of New­ark, New Jer­sey, or­dained him June 8, 1864, and he served as pas­tor of the First Pres­by­ter­ian Church, Bloom­field, New Jersey (1864–73).

From 1873–1900, he was pre­si­dent, and pro­fess­or of ho­mi­le­tics, church gov­ern­ment and pas­tor­al theo­lo­gy at the Ger­man Theo­lo­gic­al Sem­in­ary (now Bloom­field College), East Bloom­field, New Jer­sey. The Col­lege of New Jer­sey award­ed him an hon­or­ary DD de­gree in 1874.

Works

• Sermon De­liv­ered in the Re­formed Dutch Church, Uti­ca, on Oc­ca­sion of the Death of Mrs. John F. Sey­mour, Sep­tem­ber 9, 1860
• A Year with St. Paul, or, Fif­ty-Two Less­ons for the Sun­days of the Year, 1863
• The Pri­ma­ry Year of the Gra­du­at­ed Sun­day-School Text Books, 1863
• The Six­ti­eth An­ni­ver­sa­ry of the Mar­riage of John J. and Sar­ah Ann Knox, Oc­to­ber 7th, 1873
• Origin and An­nals of the Old Church on the Green: The First Pres­by­ter­ian Church of Bloom­field, pub­lished post­hu­mous­ly, 1901
• David the King: With a Stu­dy on the Lo­ca­tion of the Psalms in the Or­der of Da­vid’s Life, 1875
• Love to the End: A Book for the Com­mun­ion Sab­bath, 1865