John Jay Knox [SEP] date of death
John Jay Knox Jr.
John Jay Knox Jr. (March 19, 1828 – February 9, 1892) was an American financier and government official. He is best remembered as a primary author of the Coinage Act of 1873, which discontinued the use of the silver dollar.
Knox was Comptroller of the Currency from 1872 to 1884. An advocate of uniform currency for the national banks of the country, his portrait was featured on the obverse of the $100 United States national bank notes of the Series of 1902.
, he rented rooms in the Reform Club, where he died in late 1899. He was a bachelor, and on his death he left his huge fortune (by one account it was between seven and eight million pounds) to two nephews in Chicago and Scotland.
References.
- Knox, John Jay, "A History of Banking in the United States", 1900, Bradford Rhodes & Company, retrieved via Google Books 
- Smith, Alice E., "George Smith's Money: A Scottish Investor in