Portrait of Henry Knox by Charles Willson Peale, Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum Henry Knox, a first-hand witness to American history and a hero in the American Revolution, was born in Boston on July 25, 1750, the seventh of ten children. His parents, William Knox and Mary (née Campbell), were Ulster Scots immigrants who came to Boston from Derry in 1729, part of a large exodus of Ulster-Irish Presbyterians who were emigrating to New England beginning around 1717-1718. As a boy, Knox attended the Boston Latin School , then at age 12, he went to work as an apprentice and clerk at Wharton & Bowes Booksellers at the corner of State and Cornhill (now Washington Street). The bookstore was right next to where the Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770, and Knox came upon the impending massacre before it happened. According to witnesses, Knox implored British Captain Preston to withdraw his men, but the request was ignored, giving way to the fracas that left five Boston men
Martin Milmore (1844-1993), considered one of America's most talented and consequential sculptors in the late 19th century, died at his home in Boston on July 21, 1883, at age 39. Born in Kilmorgan, County Sligo on September 14, 1844, he was the youngest of five brothers born to Martin Milmoe and Sarah Hart. When the father died, Sarah and her five sons emigrated to Boston in 1851, where Sara's sister Ann was living. They lived on Warren Street in the South End before moving to Hammond Street in Roxbury. Martin showed an early inclination for art at the Martin Brimmer School on Common Street, where he was encouraged by his teachers and by Headmaster Joshua Bates. It was here that one of Martin's teachers seemingly encouraged the family to change its name from Milmoe to Milmore, to align more closely with a popular Boston musician and bandleader at the time, Patrick S. Gilmore . After grammar school Martin attended Boston Latin School , graduating in 1860. He was then