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Joseph Warren Revere (April 30, 1777 – October 11, 1868) was an American businessman and the son of Revolutionary War patriot

Paul Revere Paul Revere (; December 21, 1734 O.S. (January 1, 1735 N.S.)May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, Sons of Liberty member, and Patriot and Founding Father. He is best known for his midnight ride to a ...

Early life

Revere was born on April 30, 1777 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was named after Dr.

Joseph Warren Joseph Warren (June 11, 1741 – June 17, 1775), a Founding Father of the United States, was an American physician who was one of the most important figures in the Patriot movement in Boston during the early days of the American Revolution, ...

, the Massachusetts militiaman who was killed in action during the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775, and who sent Revere's father on his famous midnight ride. He was the third of eight children born to

(1734–1818) and his second wife, Rachel ( née Walker) Revere (1745–1813).

Career

In 1801, his father purchased the Canton Mill, an ironworks mill, and using a loan from the

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, established the

Revere Copper Company The Revere Copper Company is a copper rolling mill in the United States. It operated North America's first copper rolling mill. It was started by Paul Revere in 1801 in Canton, Massachusetts, and developed a commercially viable process for manufa ...

in Canton, Massachusetts, which young Revere joined in 1804. Upon his father's retirement in 1811, he became president of the company. He was largely responsible for the success of the business, in which he pioneered the technique of rolling copper into large sheets. From 1816 to 1819 and again in 1840, Revere served in the Massachusetts Legislature and was a member of the Board of Aldermen in the 1830s. He also was a member of the

Massachusetts Humane Society Captain Joshua James, volunteer The Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, better known as the Massachusetts Humane Society was founded in 1786 by a group of Boston citizens who were concerned about the needless deaths resulting ...

, an organization that provided money for the physically and mentally ill and the poor, and the

Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association The Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association (est.1795) of Boston, Massachusetts, was "formed for the sole purposes of promoting the mechanic arts and extending the practice of benevolence." Founders included Paul Revere, Jonathan Hunnewell, a ...

Personal life

On April 16, 1821, he married Mary Robbins (1794–1879) in Milton,

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. Mary was the daughter of Elizabeth (née Murray) Robbins and Edward Hutchinson Robbins, the former

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. Together, Joseph and Mary Revere were the parents of eight children: * John Revere (1822–1886), who married Susan Tilden Torrey (1826–1911), daughter of John Gore Torrey, in 1848. * Joseph Revere (b. 1823) * Edward Hutchinson Robbins Revere (1827–1862), a member of the

20th Massachusetts Infantry The 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, also known as the "Harvard Regiment," was a regiment of infantry in the American Civil War. The regiment was so nicknamed because the officers of the 20th were young Harvard graduates. In addition, some, ...

during the

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who was an assistant surgeon in the regiment was killed during the Battle of Antietam. * Elizabeth Murray Revere (1828–1910), who married Robert Possac Rogers. * Maria Amelia Revere (1828–1905) * Mary Josephine Revere (b. 1830) * Paul Joseph Revere (1832–1863), also a member of the 20th Massachusetts Infantry during the Civil War who was a major in the regiment, received a mortal wound during the

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and died of his wound on July 4, 1863. * Jane Minot Revere (1834–1910), who married Dr. John Phillips Reynolds (1825–1909) in 1859. Revere died, aged 91, on October 11, 1868 in Canton,

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Revere, Joseph Warren Businesspeople from Massachusetts 1777 births 1868 deaths