General Kilbourn Knox, the sixth Governor of the Northwest Branch of the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers who passed away on April 17, 1891, is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/wood.asp.  Biographical information below found on Find a Grave contributed by Chuck Cummings.  Ira Kilburn Knox was a native of Pennsylvania where he was born in Lawrenceville on October 23, 1842, the son of The Honorable John Knox, one of the Justice's of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and Adeline Kilburn. He was known as Ira Kilburn Knox at the time of his enlistment on April 19, 1861 in the Commonwealth Artillery of Philadelphia. He was assigned with his company to Fort Delaware where he remained until June 1861.   On June 9, 1861, Kilburn was commissioned a 1st Lieutenant in the 13th U.S. Infantry, commission to date from May 14, 1861. Lieutenant Knox was transferred to Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri, where he was assigned to duties as drill officer for three regiments of volunteers. He then went on recruiting and mustering duty in Iowa. He was transferred to the Army of the Tennessee where he served in the Commissary Department under Major General William T. Sherman; he was promoted Captain on May 14, 1864. Kilburn was then assigned to the staff of Major General James Birdseye McPherson. He was brevetted Major in the Regular Army on July 24, 1864 for gallant and meritorious service at the Battle of Atlanta on the recommendation of General John Logan. He was with General McPherson at the time of his death and accompanied the General's remains when they were returned to Ohio for burial. He returned to duty and participated in the battles of Jonesboro and Lovejoy Station.  In September 1864, he was ordered to Washington D.C. where he was assigned to the staff of the Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, in the Commissary General's office. He was brevetted Lieutenant Colonel on March 13 1865. On April 15, 1865, he was assigned to duty as military aide to President Abraham Lincoln, which appointment was nullified by the death of the President. He was then appointed Assistant Secretary to President Andrew Johnson and served in that position until August 1865. At that time, Kilburn Knox reverted to his regular army rank of Captain and returned to service with the 13th U.S. Infantry and then transferred to the 22nd Infantry. He was assigned to command Fort Dakota, Dakota Territory, a position he held until he resigned his commission on April. 1, 1869.  Kilburn returned to Philadelphia. Moving to New York City, he accepted a position with the firm of Schuyler, Hartlely, and Graham. On April August 19, 1871, he married Annie Menager. When General John A. Dix was elected Governor of New York, Knox was appointed to the Governor's staff as Commissary General and Chief of Ordnance with the rank of Brigadier General. He was much involved in veterans' affairs in New York.  He was one of the earliest members of the MOLLUS becoming a Companion (Insignia No. 65) of the Pennsylvania Commandery on November 1, 1865. He transferred to the New York Commandery on April 30, 1877 and to the Wisconsin Commandery on October 2, 1889.  In January 1887, he was appointed Secretary and Inspector of the Northwestern Branch, National Home for Disabled Veterans at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He became Governor of the Home on May 1, 1889. His wife, Annie, worked as a Matron of the Home. The Knox's had a daughter, Birdseye McPherson Knox. General Knox died at the National Soldier's Home on April 17, 1891. Annie M. Knox continued to work as a Matron at the Home until her death in 1927. Birdseye married Oscar Chrysler and they had three children, Laura Annette, Harriet Louise, and Frederick Knox Chrysler.  Kilburn Knox was called to testify, at the trial of John Wilkes Booth, in the assassination of President Lincoln, as a witness in the portion of the trial of the conspirators that dealt with the defendant Michael O'Laughlen. O'Laughlen was a childhood friend of John Wilkes Booth when both were residents of Baltimore, Maryland. O'Laughlen had enlisted in the First Maryland Infantry in the Confederate Army in 1861 and served until late 1862 when ill health forced him to resign and return to Maryland. John Wilkes Booth had drawn him into the initial conspiracy, which was to kidnap President Lincoln. The plot to kidnap the President failed and O'Laughlen returned to Baltimore from the Capitol. Several weeks later, he was summoned by Booth to meet with him in Washington, DC and was present in the city on April 13.   https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-5455/WCL005532?lasttype=boolean;lastview=reslist;med=1;resnum=4249;size=50;sort=m_flm;start=4201;subview=detail;view=entry;rgn1=ic_all;q1=wcl1ic. *The preceding content is not intended as a comprehensive biography, but it highlights their significance as a result of military or civilian distinction, lasting achievements, or association with impactful national events. 

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