Knox, Henry

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Knox, Henry

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( b.1750 d. 1806) Apprenticed at the bookstore of Daniel Henchman's bookstore. Samuel Adams Drake, Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston pg. 85 1. "General Knox was a Bookbinder, and pursued that occupation, opposite the west end of the Town (Old State) House; and was a founder of a corps of Grenadiers in Boston, among whom he acquired the first rudiments of military tactics."History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, By Zachariah Gardner Whitman,1842, pg.301-302. 2.  Bookbinder, Patriot, Revolutionary War General, Washington's Chief of Artillery, and  this country's first Secretary of War. General Knox Museum. www.generalknoxmuseum.org/knoxbio.html 3. 1771, Cornhill,  John Langdon and Henry Knox both apprenticed with Warton & Bowers. J. Leander Bishop, History of American Manufacturers, 1868, pg. 192

Also Known As

General Henry Knox

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Bookbinder