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Fox, Charles James – Fox, Gustavus Vasa

Fox, Charles James

lawyer, legislator, author, was born Oct. 11, 1811, 11, 1811, in Antrim, N. H. In 1837 he was a mema member of the New Hampshire legislature ; was county solicitor in 1835-44; and in 1841-42 was one of the commission to reto revise the New Hampshire statutes. He was the author of The New Hampshire Book of Prose and Poetry; The History of Dunstable; and The Town Officer.

Fox, Charles Kemble

actor, was born Aug. 15, 1833, in Boston, Mass . His first appearance in New York was made at the old National theater in 1853, as Cute in Uncle Tom's Cabin. He died Jan. 17, 1875.

Fox, Charles Nelson

lawyer, jurist, was born March 9, 1829, in Detroit , Mich. He began practice in San Franin San Francisco. In 1889 he accepted an appointment to fill a vacancy on the bench of tne supreme court.

Fox, Ebenezer

author, was born in 1763, in East Roxbury, Mass. He was a Bostonian, who was postmaster of his city in 1830-36, and the author of The Revolutionary Adventures of Ebenezer Fox.

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He died in 1843, in East Roxbury,

Fox, Edward

jurist, was born in Maine. He was a resident of Portland, of Portland, and in 1866 was appointed United States judge for the district of Maine. He died . He died Dec. 14, 1881.

Fox, Elias Williams

journalist, legislator, was born Oct. 28, 1828, in Buf- 1828, in Buffalo, N. Y. He was the first president of the St. Louis board of trade; in 1865 was a member of the Missouri legislature ; and in 1885 he bought The National Republic of Washington, D. C., which he edited with eminent ability for several years.

Fox, Francis

lawyer, lecturer, was born June 28, 1858, in Porter, Maine . During 1880-90 he served with distinction as a member of the Maine legislature. He is . He is a successful lawyer of Kezar Falls, Maine , and a brilliant lecturer.

Fox, Frank

educator, clergyman, was born Jan. 28, 1859, in Knox county , Ohio. During 1890-91 he was principal of public schools of Dodge, Neb.; and has always taken a deep interest in educational work. In 1895 he graduated from the Chicago Theological seminary with the degree of B. D.; and is now pastor of the congregational church at Three Oaks, Mich.

Fox, George

founder, was born in July, 1624, in England. He was the founder of the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers. He died Nov. 13, 1690 , in London.

Fox, George Henry

physician, was born Oct. 8, 1846, in Ballston Spa, N.

Y. He has been unusually successful in the the adaptation of new photographic proto the illustration of medical works, and has published Photographic Illustrations of tions of Skin Diseases; Photographic Ilof Cutaneous Syphilis; Illustrated Medicine and Surgery; and Electrolysis in the Removal of Superfluous Hair, etc.

Fox, George L

actor, was born July 3, 1825, in Boston, Mass. In 1867-68 he was stage manager of the Olympic, and made an immediate success in the part of the clown in the pantomime Humptydied Oct. 24, 1877, in Cambridge, Mass.

Fox, Gustavus Vasa

manufacturer, diplomat, was born June 13, 1821, in In an official capacity he was sent to Russia to deliver in person the resolutions of congress passed upon the escape of the emperor from assassination.

He died Oct. 29, 1883, in New York city.

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