Want to learn more about JSK?

The University of Akron has an interesting biography about John S. Knight. Among tidbits:

-- JSK's college education at Cornell University was interrupted in 1917 when he enlisted in the Army, seeing action in the Argonne during World War I.

-- Knight traveled to California with $5,000 won in crapshooting to contemplate going into the cattle business.

-- His sons were

John Shively Jr., a paratrooper killed in Germany in 1945.

Charles Landon, “Lanny,” named after JSK's father, ran Portage Newspaper Supply in Akron. Lanny worked in circulation, production, advertising and business at the BJ before switching to horse breeding. In 1997, Lanny won the English Derby with Benny the Dip, who had career earnings of $1.2 million. Lanny died in 2000 in Akron.

Franklin, who printer Cal Deshong, 91 on Nov. 24, recalls working at the BJ and dying of a brain tumor in the 1950s.

-- JSK's grandson, John Shively III, was murdered in 1975.

Click on the headline to read the UA biography of JSK.