Editing William Hyer Knowles

{{Infobox Biography
| subject_name   =William Hyer Knowles
| image_name     =Bankers.jpg
| image_size     =288px
| image_caption  =''W. H. Knowles seated second from right''
| date_of_birth  =[[December 27]], [[1857]]
| place_of_birth =Pensacola <small>(Bohemia)</small>
| date_of_death  =[[1939]]
| place_of_death =
| occupation     =Banker
| religion       =[[:Category:Episcopalians|Episcopalian]]
| spouse         =[[Mary Knowles|Mary Davis Ellis]]
| parents        =[[Peter H. Knowles|Peter H.]] and [[Josephine Hyer Knowles]]
| children       =[[Ellis Knowles]]<br/>[[Josephine Knowles Seligman]]<br/>[[Jeannie Knowles Fay]]<br/>[[Peter Knowles]]<br/>[[William Hyer Knowles, Jr.]]
}}
'''William Hyer Knowles''' was a prominent Pensacolian businessman.

William was born to Peter H. and Josephine Hyer Knowles near Pensacola on [[December 27]], [[1857]].  He was educated in private schools in Pensacola, and later briefly attended the [[Wikipedia:Sewanee: The University of the South|University of the South]] in Tennessee, but did not earn a degree.  In [[1876]] he entered the banking firm of [[Knowles and Brent]], in which his brother [[L. P. Knowles]] was already engaged with [[Francis Celestino Brent]].  The firm was at some point renamed [[F. C. Brent and Company]] and was later merged into the [[First National Bank]].

Knowles was married on [[November 25]], [[1885]] in Newbern, North Carolina to [[Mary Knowles|Mary Davis Ellis]], whose father served as the governor of North Carolina in [[1861]].

[[Knowles Avenue]] in [[East Pensacola Heights]] is named in honour of the Knowles family.

[[Category:Bankers|Knowles, William Hyer]] [[Category:Episcopalians|Knowles, William Hyer]] [[Category:People buried in St. John's Cemetery|Knowles, William Hyer]]