Bridge Honors Knights

By joint action of the City Council of Rockford, Ill., and the Board of Supervisors of Winnebago County, Illinois, a new bridge now under construction across the Rock River, just south of Rockford, has been named "The Bradford A. Knight and William D Knight Bridge." Honored thus for their great public service are the late Bill Knight '08 and his father, the late Bradford A. Knight, both lawyers in Rockford for many years.

The four-span bridge is part of a sis-million bypass route that skirts the south edge of the city. It will be completed late in 1961. The naming of the bridge for the Knights was approved by both the Federal Bureau of Public Roads and the Illinois Department of Public Works and Buildings. The naming of a bridge on a federal-aid route is very rare and therefore an unusual honor.

Bill Knight joined his father's law firm in Rockford after getting his LL.B. degree at Harvard in 1911. He was elected city attorney in 1917 and 1919 and was twice appointed to the office. He served as state's attorney of Winnebago County from 1924 to 1932 and received Dartmouth's honorary A.M. degree in 1930. He was president of the Illinois state's attorneys, and of both the county and state bar associations. Prominent also in Dartmouth affairs, he was a member of the Alumni Council from 1934 to 1938 and of the Athletic Council from 1937 to 1943.