Seymour H. Knox III

Seymour Horace Knox III (March 9, 1926May 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. Early life and education Knox was born in 1926 in Buffalo, New York to Seymour H. Knox II (1898–1990) and Helen Northrup (1902-1971). His paternal grandparents were Grace Millard Knox (1862–1936) and Seymour H. Knox I (1861–1915), 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. He studied at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and graduated from Yale and Columbia University before serving as a decorated Corporal in World War II in the United States Army Field Artillery. Career Knox was a Vice President at Dominick & Dominick Inc., one of the oldest, continuously operated financial services institutions in the United States, founded in 1870.