Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Fox, Dorus M. 1901
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Belding News, 29 Nov 1901

Col. Dorus M. Fox died at his home in Des Moines, Iowa on Wednesday of last 
week.  The Detroit Evening News prints what purports to be a sketch of his life 
which is remarkable for its omissions, claiming him as a former resident of 
that city.  Maybe he was, but he also lived a year or so in Ionia county.  He 
went to Lyons in 1841, the herald says, and engaged in business.  Mr. Fox was 
colonel of the 27th Michigan infantry during the war and at its close resumed 
his place as a prominent business man of Lyons.  In 1868, when Lyons was a 
prominent peppermint field, Mr. Fox started the Present Age, a weekly paper 
devoted to the interests of Spiritualism in which faith Mr. Fox was a 
believer.  The office was located in a dwelling house situated in the midst of 
a peppermint field on the west bank of Grand river, some rods north of the 
bridge.  In 1868, the paper and plant were moved to Kalamazoo, and thence to 
new York.  He was 84 years old and for the past thirty years has been engaged 
in compiling and publishing religious and political pamphlets.  His brother, 
Perrin V. Fox, is prominent in Grand Rapids insurance circles.


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