{"id":149,"date":"2015-11-06T23:31:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T23:31:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-10-30T17:00:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T00:00:28","slug":"charles-w-knudson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brighamcityhistory.org\/people\/charles-w-knudson\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles W. Knudson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fruit and produce shipping to Idaho and Montana was a lucrative business. Among the most successful in the shipping business was Charles W. Knudson, who traveled to Butte, Montana, in 1881 to develop a market for the fruit and general produce raised by himself and his father. After serving a mission in 1883-85, he returned to Butte and stayed for several years. In 1892, he built the Union Block<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"1\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"00000000000006210000000000000000_149\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-00000000000006210000000000000000_149-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-00000000000006210000000000000000_149-1\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"1\">Lydia Walker Forsgren, <em>History of Box Elder County<\/em>, (Brigham City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937), 69-70.<\/span>, located at 57 South Main in Brigham City, UT. He also organized the Knudson Brothers Fruit and Produce Company close to the railroad tracks near Forest Street, a brick and stone building still in existence today (2014). Other growers and shippers included Lars Halling and <a href=\"http:\/\/brighamcityhistory.org\/index.php?title=R._L._Fishburn\">R. L. Fishburn and Sons<\/a>.<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"2\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"00000000000006210000000000000000_149\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-00000000000006210000000000000000_149-2\">2<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-00000000000006210000000000000000_149-2\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"2\">Forsgren, 69-70.<\/span>\n<h2>Notes<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/collections.boxeldermuseum.org\/index.php\/Search\/Index?search=Interwiki: #replace:Interwiki: PAGENAMEE++ \u00bb _%20\">Search Brigham City Museum Collections<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fruit and produce shipping to Idaho and Montana was a lucrative business. Among the most successful in the shipping business was Charles W. 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