Brief Life History of Rossiter Ray
When Rossiter Ray Fox was born on 28 July 1884, in La Porte City, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States, his father, Samuel Oliver Fox, was 33 and his mother, Lillian M Berry Cummins, was 25. He married Elsie Ruth Darkow on 12 March 1907. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and King, Washington, United States in 1950. He died on 7 February 1953, in San Rafael, Marin, California, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Crookston, Polk, Minnesota, United States.
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- Ross R Fox, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Rossiter Ray Fox - Individual or family possessions: Family Bible: birth: 28 July 1884; La Porte City, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States
- Ross Ray Fox, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1889 · Washington Becomes a State
On November 11, 1889, Washington Territory became Washington State the 42nd state to enter the Union. The state was named in honor of George Washington.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
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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