Ancestry of
Phil Knight

Co-Founder, Nike Inc.

Dorothy Butler

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Phil Knight — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 717 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Butler 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Olmstead   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1676 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Aug 1709 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Kilbourn
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Jun 1696 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Joseph Kilbourn (Ahnentafel No:358 )

• Sources for Dorothy Butler

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 174, Birth record for son Joseph Kilbourne.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 174, Marriage record for Joseph Kilbourn and Dorothy Butler.
  • ³ Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 657.

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