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historical notes
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Collector, art patron, banker, and first chairman of the New York State Council on the Arts.
Mr. Knox was a director of several prominent corporations, among them the Marine Midland Bank, F. W. Woolworth Company, the New York Central Railroad, the Penn Central Railroad and the American Steamship Company. He was chairman of the Marine Midland Trust Company of Western New York from 1943 to 1970 and was chairman emeritus at his death. Knox was honorary chairman of the board of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, which ran the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo.
Knox gave more than 700 works of art to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo.
Mr. Knox's wife, Helen Northrup Knox, died in 1971.
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