Brief Life History of Ralph Thomas
When Ralph Thomas Fox Sr. was born on 11 January 1896, in Pittsgrove Township, Salem, New Jersey, United States, his father, Thomas Calhoun Fox, was 38 and his mother, Anna M. Nichols, was 31. He had at least 2 sons with Gertrude L. Sutch. He lived in Landis Township, Cumberland, New Jersey, United States in 1920 and Clayton, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States for about 10 years. He died in March 1985, in Ocean City, Cape May, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Cedar Green Cemetery, Clayton, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States.
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- Ralph T Fox in household of Elizebeth Savacool, "United States Census, 1940"
- Ralph T. Fox, "New Jersey, Births, 1670-1980"
- Ralph Thomas Fox, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1903
The Public Service Corporation (PSC) was formed on May 6, 1903. The company began as a merger of a power company with four different trolley companies. PSC would ultimately combine with over 400 other companies.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
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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