Tuscola-Lapeer County MI Archives Biographies.....Fox, George 1853 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

GEORGE FOX is an intelligent and worthy farmer residing on section 1, Watertown
Township, Tuscola County, who is a Canadian by birth, having been born July 22,
1853. He is a son of Horace Fox, a New Yorker by birth who came to Canada with
his parents and was there reared and married. His wife, the mother of our
subject, bore the maiden name of Jessie Boulton, a native of England who
emigrated to America when she was quite small. She was one of a family of nine
children born to her parents, five sons and four daughters. Her father
throughout his life followed the occupation of an agriculturist, with which
calling he combined that of a miller. He came to Lapeer County in 1856 and was a
prominent man in the county. Mr. Fox and his brother Martin bought some three
hundred and twenty acres of land in Tuscola County which they sold. The brothers
then purchased a tract of two hundred and seventy acres in Lapeer County on
which he located and resided until his death. In the Masonic order he had taken
the first degree. He and his wife were members of the Baptist Church. His
decease took place in 1887; the mother is still living and makes her home in
Mayville; she is sixty-six years of age.

  Our subject passed the first three years of his life in Canada, and was then
brought by his parents to Lapeer County, this State. He made that county his
home until twenty-six years of age, at which time he decided to establish a home
for himself, and was married to Miss Metta A. Choate, a native of New York
State. Mrs. Fox was born December 15, 1862, and is the daughter of William D.
Choate, a native of Vermont. Her mother, Cordelia Choate, died when Mrs. Fox was
a child. Mr. and Mrs. Choate came to Tuscola County where the mother's decease
took place; the father is still living and resides in Mayville, where he is
engaged in the drug business. He has been a resident of that village for twenty
years, during that time having been engaged in the drug business and as an
hotel-keeper. He was also known as one of the prosperous dry-goods merchants of
the place. Mr. and Mrs. George Fox have become the parents of one child — Floyd
H., who was born August 20, 1881. Mr. Fox owns one hundred and twenty acres of
land given him by his father. Of this he has cleared forty acres and put it
under excellent cultivation. The place is further embellished by good buildings
which are the result of the industry of our subject. Socially he is connected
with the Masonic order, being a Master Mason in Lodge No. 394. He is also
identified with the Odd Fellows, being a member of Mayville Lodge, No. 522. In
politics he cast the weight of his vote and influence with the Republican party.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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