Lawrence Howland Knox (September 30, 1906 – January 6, 1966) was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and died of carbon monoxide poisoning at Colegio Vista Hermosa, Mexico City.
Elijah's son -William Jacob- established an important precedent for future generations of upward mobility through education.
William Jacob graduated from Harvard University with a PhD in chemistry and joined Lawrence as a part of the Manhattan Project.
[2] Their youngest brother, Clinton E. Knox, also graduated from Harvard University, with a PhD in history, and he served as an ambassador to Dahomey (now Benin, 1964–69) and Haiti (1969–73).
During his attendance at Bates College he participated in numerous extracurriculars; member of the Jordan Scientific Society and lettered football as a right halfback.
Their relocation to Katonah in 1948 was met with staunch opposition from the local white community, who demanded that they live in the marginal district reserved for Black residents known as Greenville.
Consequently, Sylvan and Ruth Weil, the philanthropists who founded Hickrill Chemical Research Foundation, built a home for the Knox family on their estate.
They joined the local Episcopal church and personally invited residents to their house for a party, only to be shunned by the predominantly white community.
The couple moved to Mexico City after Knox worked with Laboratorios Syntex S.A., a small pharmaceutical company.