Name/Title
Knox, HenryDescription
( 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. 192Also Known As
General Henry Knox