BIO: John FOX, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, pages 204-205.
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  FOX, JOHN, son of John Fox and Ann Margaret Rupert, was born June 10, 
1780, near Hummelstown, Dauphin county, Pa.  He was educated in the 
country schools of the neighborhood, and a farmer by occupation.  He 
became quite prominent and influential in the political affairs of the 
county, and served as a member of the House of Representatives of 
Pennsylvania from 1831 to 1833.  He filled the office of sheriff from 
October 14, 1833, to October 21, 1836, and again from October 19, 1839, 
to October 24, 1842.  Apart from these positions of trust and honor, he 
served his neighbors in the various township offices with fidelity.  He 
died at his residence in Hummelstown, July 19, 1853, aged seventy-three 
years.  He was a representative man, not only of his family but of the 
county, a faithful officer of strict integrity, upright and 
conscientious in all his relations with his fellow-men.