Seymour H. Knox III




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Seymour H. Knox III
SeymourHKnoxIII.jpg
Owner of the Buffalo Sabres

In office
1970–1996
Serving with Northrup R. Knox, Robert O. Swados, & George W. Strawbridge, Jr.


Personal details
Born
(1926-03-09)March 9, 1926
Buffalo, New York
Died May 22, 1996(1996-05-22) (aged 70)
East Aurora New York
Spouse(s)
Jean Read (m. 1954)
Children 4
Parents
Seymour Horace Knox II
Helen Northrup
Relatives
Northrup R. Knox (brother)
Seymour H. Knox I (grandfather)
Education St. Paul's School
Alma mater
Yale University
Columbia University
Occupation
Philanthropist and owner of the Buffalo Sabres

Seymour Horace Knox III (March 9, 1926 – May 22, 1996) was a philanthropist and sports entrepreneur. He owned the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League from their foundation in 1970 to his death in 1996, and served as chairman of the team. He was the grandson of Seymour H. Knox I, the F.W. Woolworth Company co-founder, and son of art enthusiast Seymour H. Knox II.[1][2]




Contents






  • 1 Early life and education


  • 2 Career


    • 2.1 Hockey


    • 2.2 Other Buffalo sports




  • 3 Personal life


    • 3.1 Legacy




  • 4 See also


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





Early life and education


Knox was born in 1926 in Buffalo, New York to Seymour H. Knox II (1898–1990)[3] and Helen Northrup (1902-1971).[4] His paternal grandparents were Grace Millard Knox (1862–1936)[5] and Seymour H. Knox I (1861–1915),[6] who merged his chain of five-and-dime stores with those of his first cousins, Frank Winfield Woolworth and Charles Woolworth, to form the F. W. Woolworth Company.[7][8]


He studied at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire,[9] and graduated from Yale and Columbia University before serving as a decorated Corporal in World War II in the United States Army Field Artillery.[10]



Career


Knox was a Vice President at Dominick & Dominick Inc.,[8] one of the oldest, continuously operated financial services institutions in the United States, founded in 1870.[10]



Hockey


Along with his brother Northrup R. Knox and attorney Robert O. Swados, he presented an application October 19, 1965 to obtain a National Hockey League expansion team in 1967. Knox's bid was not among the six chosen to take part in the 1967 NHL expansion. One year later, the NHL Board of Governors rejected a proposal from the Knox-Swados team to move the struggling Oakland Seals (one of the six expansion teams) to Buffalo. Finally, on December 2, 1969 the league announced its decision to add two additional teams for the 1970–71 season; the two teams were to be the Vancouver Canucks, who themselves had bid on entry in the previous expansion but were rejected, and the new Knox-Swados entry in Buffalo. It was Seymour's idea to name the team the Sabres. According to Seymour, a sabre is strong on both defense and offense, and is a weapon carried by a leader.[11]


By 1975, the Sabres were in the Stanley Cup Finals and Knox was named The Hockey News executive of the year. Knox served on the NHL's Board of Governors for 25 years and was a director of the US Hockey Hall of Fame. Knox was a principal owner of the Buffalo Sabres from their founding as a National Hockey League franchise in 1970 until his death in Buffalo in 1996. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1993, and was posthumously honoured with the Lester Patrick Trophy in 1997.[12]



Other Buffalo sports


The Knox Brothers were the impetus behind the establishment of the Buffalo Bandits of the Major Indoor Lacrosse League in 1991 and the Buffalo Blizzard of the National Professional Soccer League in 1992.


The brothers also brought their vision of a state of the art sports and entertainment complex originally named the Marine Midland Arena and now called the KeyBank Center to life. The 18,690 seat complex was completed in 1996 and is located at 1 Seymour H. Knox III Plaza on the waterfront in downtown Buffalo. It is the home of the Buffalo Sabres and the Buffalo Bandits as well as the former home of the Buffalo Blizzard and Buffalo Destroyers of the Arena Football League.



Personal life


On May 16, 1954, he was married to Jean Read, daughter of William Augustus Read, in Greenwich, Connecticut.[9] Jean was a graduate of the Chapin School in New York and was introduced into society in 1952 at the Debutante Cotillion in Boston.[9] Together, they had four children:[13]




  • Seymour Knox IV,[13] former president of Friends of Knox Farm State Park,[14] who married Constance Jewell in 1989.[15]

  • W. A. Read Knox,[13] who is married to Shannon Sullivan

  • Avery Fabyan Knox (b. 1957), who studied art history at Yale University[16][13] and married Nancy Ableson in 1988[17]

  • Helen Knox, who married Robert G. Keilholtz, Jr. in 1993[18]


As a philanthropist, Knox contributed to a vast array of Greater Buffalo charities and causes such as the Chamber of Commerce, United Way and Children's Foundation of Erie County. He was fond of playing tennis, squash, and polo.[10]


Knox died on May 22, 1996.[19] His eulogy remarks on the Congressional Record were made by Daniel P. Moynihan[1] in the U.S. Senate and John J. LaFalce[2] and Jack Quinn[3] in the House of Representatives.



Legacy


The Knox brothers were inducted into the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame in 1992 and into the Buffalo Sabres Hall of Fame in 1996.[19]



See also



  • Buffalo Sabres

  • Knox Farm State Park

  • Buffalo Memorial Auditorium



References





  1. ^ "$100,000 Given to Art Gallery". The New York Times. 11 December 1938. Retrieved 1 May 2017..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "ROCKEFELLER OPENS GALLERY IN BUFFALO". The New York Times. 20 January 1962. Retrieved 1 May 2017.


  3. ^ Glueck, Grace (28 September 1990). "Seymour H. Knox Is Dead at 92; Buffalo Banker Was Art Patron". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 May 2017.


  4. ^ Times, Special To The New York (11 December 1971). "MRS. SEYMOUR KNOX". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 May 2017.


  5. ^ Times, Special To The New York Times (31 August 1936). "MRS. SEYMOUR KNOX, PHILANTHROPIST, DIES; Buffalo Social Leader Was the Widow of One of Early Woolworth Partners". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 May 2017.


  6. ^ Times, Special To The New York (17 May 1915). "SEYMOUR H. KNOX DEAD.; Banker, Who with Woolworth Started Ten-Cent Stores, Amassed $10,000,000". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 May 2017.


  7. ^ "Seymour Horace Knox". Archived from the original on March 24, 2007. Retrieved March 31, 2007.


  8. ^ ab "F. W. Woolworth Co. Elects Board Member". The New York Times. 15 February 1968. Retrieved 1 May 2017.


  9. ^ abc Times, Special To The New Yorl (16 May 1954). "JEAN READ IS WED TO YALE ALUMNUS; Escorted by Father at Her Marriage in Greenwich to Seymour H. Knox 3d". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 May 2017.


  10. ^ abc Buffalo Sabres History "The Early Years" "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-03-07. Retrieved 2011-04-15.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link) 2010


  11. ^ Donovan, Michael Leo (1997). The Name Game: Football, Baseball, Hockey & Basketball How Your Favorite Sports Teams Were Named. Toronto: Warwick Publishing. ISBN 1-895629-74-8.


  12. ^ Collins gem Hockey Facts and Stats 2009-10, p.426, Andrew Podnieks, Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
    ISBN 978-1-55468-621-6


  13. ^ abcd "IN THE MATTER OF THE JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF THE INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNT OF HSBC BANK USA, N.A. AS TRUSTEE OF THE TRUST UNDER AGREEMENT DATED JANUARY 21, 1957, SEYMOUR H. KNOX, GRANTOR, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ISSUE OF SEYMOUR H. KNOX, III FOR THE PERIOD JANUARY 21, 1957 TO NOVEMBER 3, 2005" (PDF). nycourts.gov. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department. Retrieved 13 April 2016.


  14. ^ Kearns, Michelle (October 17, 2014). "Knox family members and friends leave state park board - The Buffalo News". www.buffaloNews.com. The Buffalo News. Retrieved 13 April 2016.


  15. ^ "Constance Jewell Becomes the Wife Of S. H. Knox 4th". The New York Times. 6 August 1989. Retrieved 1 May 2017.


  16. ^ "Avery Knox". Saatchi Art. Saatchi Art. Retrieved 13 April 2016.


  17. ^ "Nancy Abelson to Wed Broker". The New York Times. 28 February 1988. Retrieved 13 April 2016.


  18. ^ "WEDDINGS; Helen E. Knox, R. G. Keilholtz Jr". The New York Times. 23 May 1993. Retrieved 13 April 2016.


  19. ^ ab "Seymour Knox 3d, 70, N.H.L. Team Owner". The New York Times. 23 May 1996. Retrieved 1 May 2017.




External links



  • Biographical information and career statistics from Legends of Hockey

  • Sports Illustrated: School of Hard Knox


  • The Birth of the Sabres[permanent dead link]

  • Knox Family of Buffalo, NY

  • Friends of Knox Farm State Park









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