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''This article is about the Buffalo merchant and businessman; see Seymour Knox for other people with this name.'' Seymour Horace Knox I (April 1861 – May 17, 1915), was a Buffalo, New York businessman who made his fortune in five-and-dime stores.〔 He merged his more than 100 stores with those of his first cousins, Frank Winfield Woolworth and Charles Woolworth, to form the F. W. Woolworth Company. He went on to hold prominent positions in the merged company as well as Marine Trust Co.〔 He was the father of Seymour H. Knox II and grandfather of Seymour H. Knox III and Northrup Knox, the co-founders of the Buffalo Sabres in the National Hockey League. ==Biography== He was born in April 1861 in Russell, Saint Lawrence County, New York.〔 His father was James Horace Knox, a farmer married to Jane E. McBrier. James' grandfather had fought in the American Revolution.〔 William Knox, was the first of this line of Knoxes to came to Massachusetts from Belfast, Ireland, in 1737.〔 Seymour attended the Russell district school and at fifteen, though he had never gone to high school, began to teach in school himself.〔 At seventeen he moved to Hart, Michigan, where for a few years he worked as a salesclerk. Then he left for Reading, Pennsylvania, where he entered into a partnership with his first cousins.〔 He later donated the Knox Memorial Central School Building (dedicated on July 30, 1913) that served the town until the Knox Memorial School and Edwards Central School merged. Seymour married Grace Millard Knox (1862–1936), in 1890, and they raised three children: Seymour H. Knox II (Seymour, Jr.), Marjorie, and Dorothy.〔 Among his grandchildren were Seymour H. Knox III and Northrup R. Knox, the original principal owners of the Buffalo Sabres.〔 Grace established The University at Buffalo's first endowment fund in 1916 when she donated $250,000. Knox bred champion trotters and pacers and was a polo enthusiast.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seymour H. Knox I」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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