William Knight was a resident of Chowan County. In 1777 he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the State of North Carolina, electing to leave the state instead. In July 1777, his name along with the names of six other loyalists appeared in… Read More

Luther David Knott was born on October 21, 1888, in Granville County, North Carolina. Knott was an insurance and real estate agent who served as a special agent for the Bureau of Investigation (precursor to the Federal Bureau of Investigation)… Read More

Charles Knowles (circa 1704 - 1777) was a British naval officer and politician who served as governor of Louisburg (1746-1748), commander-in-chief of Jamaica (1747-1748), and governor of Jamaica (1752-1756).

Robert Knowls was a resident of colonial Duplin County where he served in the militia company of Frederick Gregg. In 1755, he joined other merchants, traders, and planters in petitioning the Board of Trade for relief on trade restrictions.

Augustus Washington Knox was born on May 6, 1849, in St. Louis, Missouri. Knox was a physician in Raleigh, North Carolina. He taught at the Leonard Medical School (part of Shaw University) and the medical school at the University of North… Read More

Robert Knox was a planter in Bertie County. In 1777 he became a member of the Gourd Patch Conspiracy when he swore an oath to that organization's constitution before… Read More

Harry Clifford Kramer was born on December 24, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Kramer was an attorney from Camden, New Jersey, who served as an executive officer in the office of Provost Marshal General Enoch H. Crowder during World War I.… Read More

Jean Krasnoguire was a Russian nationalist who worked as a lumberer for the Dare Lumber Company in 1913. At the logging town of Buffalo City, in Dare county, Krasnoguire and two other Russian citizens were assaulted by North Carolinians,… Read More

Antoine Kreivitski was a Russian nationalist who worked as a lumberer for the Dare Lumber Company in 1913. At the logging town of Buffalo City, in Dare county, Kreivitski and two other Russian citizens were assaulted by North Carolinians,… Read More

The Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist hate group which first emerged at the start of reconstruction as a fraternity in Pulaski, Tennessee. Many former confederate soldiers joined the organization and began to target individuals in the South who… Read More

James Stuart Kuykendall was born on September 8, 1871, in West Virginia. Kuykendall was a realtor in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who served as the secretary of the Winston-Salem Exemption Board. He died in Winston-Salem on January 28, 1961.… Read More