Brief Life History of Philip Charles
When Philip Charles Fox was born on 26 June 1852, in Gosfield, Essex, Canada West, British Colonial America, his father, Charles Fox, was 22 and his mother, Caroline Wiper, was 24. He married Blanche Mallot on 24 April 1872, in Gosfield South Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Essex, Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died on 24 February 1922, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Kingsville, Essex, Ontario, Canada.
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- Phillip C. Fox, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Philip Fox, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- Phillip C Fox, "Michigan Death Certificates, 1921-1952"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1868 · The Railroad Refrigerator Car
During the mid-19th century, attempts were made to ship perishable products by rail. The Western Railroad of Massachusetts was the first to experiment with the concept, but it was only functional in cold weather. In 1868, William Davis, of Detroit, patented a refrigerator car that used a frozen mixture of ice and salt to keep everything cold for shipment. It could be used in all weather and in all seasons. He sold the design to George H. Hammond, a Detroit meat packer, who built a set of cars to transport his products to Boston using ice from the Great Lakes for cooling.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from a word denoting the animal (Middle English, Old English fox), widely used to denote a sly or cunning individual. It was also used for someone with red hair. In England this surname absorbed some early examples of surnames derived from the ancient Germanic personal names mentioned at Faulks and Foulks .
Irish: part translation of Gaelic Mac an tSionnaigh ‘son of the fox’ (see Tinney ).
Irish: also adopted for Ó Catharnaigh, see Kearney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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