BIO: Hubbard Fox, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, pages 184-185.
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  FOX, HUBBARD, was born in Sherburne, Chenango County, N.Y., on March 
1, 1818, and died in Norwich, Chenango County, N.Y., on November 19, 
1892.
  He was reared in a Christian home, his father being a deacon in the 
Congregational Church.  He, however, drifted into pronounced 
skepticism.  At the age of thirty he was converted, and joined the 
Congregational Church.  At his father's death he succeeded him as 
deacon.  At age thirty-seven he yielded a struggle which covered 
several years and gave himself to the work of the ministry.  Finding 
the doctrines and usages of Methodism more in harmony with his views 
than those of Congregationalism, he joined the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and was at once given work.  In 1855 he joined the Oneida 
Conference, and became a member of Wyoming Conference by the accession 
of Oneida territory in 1869.
  In 1837 or 1838 he married Miss Sally Maria Finch, of Pitcher, 
Chenango County, N.Y.  One daughter and four sons were born to them, 
one of whom, Kelsey, was killed in the civil war.  The wife survived 
him until April 28, 1894, when she passed away.  Husband and wife lie 
side by side in Mount Hope Cemetery in Norwich, N.Y.  The balance of 
the children are alive at this writing.
  After his superannuation in 1878 he resided in Norwich until his 
death.  However, he preached as opportunity presented itself.  When the 
Owego church was in financial distress he was its assistant pastor for 
six months, and he also occupied a similar relation to the Honesdale 
church.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1855, Borodino; 1856, Amber; 
1857, Preble; 1858-59, West Eaton; 1860, Fayetteville; 1861-62, Pratt's 
Hollow; 1863-64, Fabius; 1865, Cardiff; 1866-67, New Woodstock; 1868-
69, Westford; 1870, Schenevus; 1871, Whitney's Point; 1872, Marathon; 
1873-74, Sherburne; 1875-76, Smyrna; 1878-92, sd.