{"id":1246,"date":"2015-12-02T14:10:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/?page_id=1246"},"modified":"2016-07-24T09:50:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T13:50:18","slug":"henry-knox","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/project\/henry-knox\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Knox"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brother Henry Knox<\/strong><\/p>\n July 25th 1750 \u2013 October 25th 1806<\/p>\n He became a clerk in a Boston bookstore, and eventually opened one himself. He was an avid reader, fond of history, but his main interest later settled on artillery.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Military officer of the Continental Army and later the United States Army, who also served as the first United States Secretary of War from 1789 to 1794.<\/p>\n Knox is most notably remembered for what came to be known as the noble train of artillery<\/a>, hauling by ox-drawn sled 60 tons of cannon and other armaments across some 300 miles of ice-covered rivers and snow-draped Berkshire Mountains<\/a> to the Boston siege camps<\/p>\n He retired to what is now Thomaston, Maine<\/a>, in 1795, where he oversaw the rise of a business empire built on borrowed money. He died in 1806 from an infection received after swallowing a chicken bone, leaving an estate that was bankrupt.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https:\/\/eb1870.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FAMOUS-MASON-HENRY-KNOX-1.jpg” alt=”Famous Freemason Henry Knox” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brother Henry Knox July 25th 1750 \u2013 October 25th 1806 He became a clerk in a Boston bookstore, and eventually opened one himself. He was an avid reader, fond of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"