Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Fox, John 1808 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    JOHN FOX, farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Kenosha; born Oct. 8, 1808, in
Warwickshire, Eng.; came to America in the fall of 1834; lived in Jefferson Co.,
about six years, and then came to Pleasant Prairie; bought his farm of 250 acres
in 1855, and raises all kinds of stock and grain; the ground is well timbered;
on his arrival it was all covered with hazel brush and small timber, but now is
in good cultivation. He built the house and barns himself. Married Miss Margaret
Duggan, of Ireland, Jan. 8, 1836, and has had eight children, seven now
living-Jane, William, Mary, who died; Edwin, Albert, Walter, Alice and Hattie.
William Fox was Roadmaster and Clerk of school district for several years. He is
a member of the Episcopal Church, and Mrs. Fox of St. Mark's Catholic Church.

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THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT,
RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR
IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC.,
ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY
SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN,
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXIX.
(1879)


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