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History of SHIAWASSEE and Clinton Counties, Michigan
D. W. Ensign & Co., Philadelphia; 1880

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                            ROBERT FOX
                            
        The parents of ROBERT FOX, the subject of this sketch, were both
     natives of New York.  His father, CHAUNCY D. FOX, was born June 14,
     1793, and his mother, REBECCA (LENOX) FOX, Aug. 17, 1795.  ROBERT,
     who was the second in a family of fourteen children, was born in
     Ontario Co., N.Y., Oct. 16, 1816.  On the 4th of June, 1842, after
     a long and tedious journey, the family reached Burns township, and
     the father bought a part of section 14.  Aug. 1, 1858, ROBERT mar-
     ried MARY C. WEBSTER, who died March 9, 1860.  On the 25th of Octo-
     ber, 1863, he married Miss CELIA RATHBUN, whose family were among
     the early settlers of Burns, and are spoken of in the history of
     that township.  She was born in Shiawassee township, Shiawassee Co.,
     Oct. 18, 1846.  The children of Mr. and Mrs. FOX are three in num-
     ber, viz: IDA BELLE, born Jan. 1, 1865; MONROE, born July 12, 1867;
     ROBERT R., born April 13, 1870.  Mr. FOX bought the land where he
     now lives in 1873, and having sold the place where he had resided,
     on section 26, moved to it in 1878.  Though his advantages for
     schooling were very limited, Mr. FOX, by the judicious selection
     of reading-matter, became much better informed than could have 
     been expected, considering the many discouraging circumstances
     which surrounded him.  In politics he is a Democrat, and has
     often been elected to the various township offices by his party.
     In religion he is liberal in his views, maintaining that each man
     has a right to his own candid conviction.  Mr. FOX'S mother died
     March 5, 1849; his father, July 29, 1871.
     
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