Boston - 220 Years Apart

As many of you know, I'm an Improper Bostonian, but had many illustrious predecessors, among them General Henry Knox, Bookman manque.

Born in Boston on July 25, 1750, Henry Knox was the seventh (of ten) child of William and Mary Knox. A merchant captain, William Knox died in 1759, after experiencing a financial collapse. Three years later, Henry was forced to leave the Boston Latin Grammar School in order to support his mother and younger siblings. Apprenticing himself to a bookbinder, he learned the trade and eventually opened his own shop, the London Book Store, at the age of twenty-one. An avid reader, he was fascinated by military topics and read widely on the subject, with a focus on artillery.