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Cracker and confectionery manufacturer; president, Medical Protective Company
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Fox was born in Fort Wayne to George and Mary Fox, who ran a confectionery and baking business from 1863. After the wholesale grocery and confectionery house of Huestis & Hamilton, he partnered with H. J. Trentman on 1 June 1877 in a wholesale cracker and confectionery establishment, bought Trentman out in 1882, and sold the business to the United States Baking Company on 11 June 1890, staying on as manager and director; when the National Biscuit Company bought it in 1898 he managed until resigning on 1 June 1902, his twenty-fifth year in the trade. Retirement did not hold: by 1917 he was president of the Medical Protective Company, the Hartford City Paper Company, the Fort Wayne Postal Telegraph Company and the Fort Wayne District Telegraph Company, vice-president of the Tri-State Loan & Trust Company, and a director of the First and Hamilton National Bank and the Wayne Knitting Mills, and he had put up the department-store building at Calhoun and Washington streets, an investment of more than a million dollars. He served on the city council from the sixth ward and on the Board of Park Commissioners, declining mayoral nominations several times. He married Sophia Lau on 2 September 1875.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History, Vol. II (1917), biographical sketch and portrait, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.