BENJAMIN FOX - Biography

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This biography appears on page 639 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

BENJAMIN FOX, farmer, Sec. 32; P. O. Burlington; born in Yorkshire,
England; he came to the State ot New York in 1849 lived there until the
fall of 1851, then came to Burlington; immediately sought and obtained
employment as a miller in the Burlington Flour Mills, where he was
employed for over twenty years. He married in Burlington, in Oct., 1855,
Miss Mary Ann Wheeler, a sister of William Wheeler; she is a native of
Somersetshire, England; they have had five children- all dead. He was
Pathmaster for eight years; filled that position with satisfaction to
the community. Mr. Fox is the owner of sixty acres of land, finely
improved, situated within one mile of Burlington, on the bank of Fox
River, and on the W. U. R. R. members of the Burlington Baptist Church.