Paul Revere was born on January 1, 1735 in Boston Massachusetts. He was the son of Apollos De Rivoire, a French Huguenot who had come to Boston at the age of thirteen to apprentice in the shop of a silversmith. Once Revoir had established his own business, he changed his name. Paul was the third of twelve children, learning silversmithing from his father, he married sarah Orne on August 17, 1757. He eventually became the father of eight children. As early as 1765 Revere began to experiment with engraving copper and produced several portraits and a songbook. He was popular as a source for engraved seals, coat of arms, and bookplates, and he began to execute engravings that were anti-british. In 1768, Revere undertook dentistry
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Reviores virtuosity as a craftsman extended to his carving picture frames for John Singleton Copley, who painted the Famous picture of Reverie with a short sleeve shirt on and holding a silver teapot. (”Paul Revere”). Even though Revere was best known for his Midnight Ride, and his work in silver and gold , several of Revere's most significant accomplishments came in his later life. Eager to begin manufacturing other metal products, Revere built an iron and brass foundry in 1787 on the corner of Lynn and foster Streets in North End Boston. Revere supported the venture with income from his silversmith shop and his financial assistance from his hichborn cousins. After several years of producing iron products,he began making bolts and spikes for the shipbuilding industry, cannons and bells. The foundry proved to be a forerunner to what the most ambitious effort in his life, developing a mill for rolling copper. In 1800 at the age of sixty five , Paul Revere motivated by patriotism and profit encouraged by a loan from the federal government purchased and renovated a former gunpowder mill in Canton Massachusetts for a copper rolling mill.Revere became the first American to roll copper into sheets.his main customers , sailors, needed heavy copper sheets for their steamships(The Paul Revere
Reviores virtuosity as a craftsman extended to his carving picture frames for John Singleton Copley, who painted the Famous picture of Reverie with a short sleeve shirt on and holding a silver teapot. (”Paul Revere”). Even though Revere was best known for his Midnight Ride, and his work in silver and gold , several of Revere's most significant accomplishments came in his later life. Eager to begin manufacturing other metal products, Revere built an iron and brass foundry in 1787 on the corner of Lynn and foster Streets in North End Boston. Revere supported the venture with income from his silversmith shop and his financial assistance from his hichborn cousins. After several years of producing iron products,he began making bolts and spikes for the shipbuilding industry, cannons and bells. The foundry proved to be a forerunner to what the most ambitious effort in his life, developing a mill for rolling copper. In 1800 at the age of sixty five , Paul Revere motivated by patriotism and profit encouraged by a loan from the federal government purchased and renovated a former gunpowder mill in Canton Massachusetts for a copper rolling mill.Revere became the first American to roll copper into sheets.his main customers , sailors, needed heavy copper sheets for their steamships(The Paul Revere