Sonoma-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Fox, Charles M. 1850 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 3, 2006, 4:38 am Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880) Fox, Charles M. Was born in Washington, Mason county, Kentucky, October 19, 1850, where he resided until August, 1853, when his parents moved to Lexington, Missouri. In 1863 they returned to Kentucky, settling in Maysville. From this place he was sent to the Western Military Academy at New Castle, Kentucky, but left in 1869, returning to Maysville. During the year 1871, he took a trip to Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, and after a residence of a year and a half, he went to San Francisco, only remaining a short time and returned to Kentucky, sojourning three months, then stopped in Lexington, Missouri, for five months; thence to Kansas City, Missouri, where he engaged as clerk and cashier for a dry goods firm for eighteen months; thence returned to Lexington, but only remained a short time, when he emigrated to this State, living in San Francisco ten months, and came to Santa Rosa, arriving in March, 1877. Commenced clerking for W. B. Shively November 7, 1878, and continued till January 1, 1879, when the partnership of Shively & Fox was formed. Additional Comments: Santa Rosa Township Extracted from: HISTORY —OF- SONOMA COUNTY, -INCLUDING ITS— Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams; —TOGETHER WITH— A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County; Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain Growing Interests, and Pisciculture; ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN; —AND OF ITS— Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc. ILLUSTRATED. SAN FRANCISCO: ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1880. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/sonoma/bios/fox951nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cafiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb