B.G. Fox
Globe
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913

Dr. B.G. Fox, a physician and surgeon who since 1892 has 
practiced continuously and ably in Globe was born in 
Clayton County Iowa, in 1853.  He is a son of Benjamin 
Franklin and Julia B. (Plum) Fox, natives of New York, 
who were married in Iowa and made their home in that state 
from 1848 until their deaths.  The father was well known in 
Clayton County and served as a lieutenant in the Black Hawk War.

The public schools of Clayton County afforded Dr. Fox his 
early educational opportunities and he after attended the 
Iowa State Agricultural College at Ames.  He came to Globe 
in June 1878.  Afterward he determined to study medicine 
and went to Kentucky where he entered the University of 
Louisville, graduating in 1892.  In that year he opened 
an office in Globe and has since remained.

Dr. Fox was married in 1881 to Miss Alice E. Richards, a 
native of Connecticut and a daughter of Frederick Richards, 
a pioneer in Iowa.  They have an only son, Jesse B., who was 
born in 1891.  he attended the Polytechnic school in Pasadena 
California for one year and a half and for two years was in 
the employ of the Arizona Eastern Railroad in the engineering 
department.  He is now in the engineering department of the 
Arizona and Calumet Mining Company at Bisbee.



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