He was named after Dr. Joseph Warren, 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.

[3] In 1801, his father purchased the Canton Mill, an ironworks mill, and using a loan from the Department of the Navy, established the Revere Copper Company in Canton, Massachusetts,[4] which young Revere joined in 1804.

[8] 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, an organization that provided money for the physically and mentally ill and the poor, and the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association.

[2] On April 16, 1821, he married Mary Robbins (1794–1879) in Milton, Massachusetts.