Joseph Knight Kilbourn
Joseph Knight Kilbourn (1823-1898), Engineer.
Birth at Connecticut, USA, of son Albert Gray Kilbourn, engineer (He Married at Brixton in 1880 to Elizabeth Cash and living at Bootle in 1891 census)
1878 Living at 50 Wiltshire Road, Brixton.
1886 'The ice-making plant illustrated on our two-page plate this week, is one recently erected at St. Andrew’s Dock, Hull, for Messrs. Holmes, Bowman, and Simpson, prominent smack owners of Hull. It was designed, arranged, and erected by Mr. J. K. Kilbourn, of 37, Walbrook, London, an American engineer, who since 1877 has resided in this country, and has made refrigerating plants on the ammonia compression system a speciality. The arrangement is based upon a series of patents taken out by Mr. Samuel Puplett and now owned by the Birmingham Refrigeration Company.'[1]
1898 Died Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA