Gawen Brown (1719-1801)

Your personal life is touched with tragedy when both your first and second wives die in childbirth.
You enlist in the Continental Army for about one year during the early days of the Revolutionary War; two of your sons fight as well.
One of your sons becomes a renowned artist, and eventually paints King George III and others in the Royal Court; another son is credited with writing the first American Novel.
One of your surviving works is the tower clock on the Old South Meeting House.