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GEORGE FREDERICK FOX.  Modern, scientific and practical farming has an able exponent in Pleasant Township in the person of George Frederick Fox, who has been a resident of this locality since 1870.  He has carried on operations on several different properties, and in each community has met with the kind of success that is only granted to those who make an intelligent use of their opportunities and who endeavor to apply up-to-date methods to their activities.  Mr. Fox comes of a family of farmers and good citizens and his career is illustrative of the benefits accruing from an intelligent handling of affairs and from dealings carried on in an honorable and straight-forward manner.      George F. Fox was born in Sandusky County, Ohio, May 12, 1856, and is a son of John and Mary Fox.  His parents were born in Wurttemburg, Germany, where they grew to maturity, being educated in the public schools and reared to lives of industry and integrity.  They were married in their native land, and after the birth of two children, John and Mary, left their little farm in the father land and turned their faces toward the new world, where they felt confident of winning a success and making a comfortable home for themselves and their children.  In 1853 they boarded a sailing vessel and after a reasonably fair trip, which consumed forty-five days, arrived at New York City.  From that Point they journeyed to Fremont, Ohio, where they resided some years, that vicinity being the birthplace of the two other children:  George F. and Samuel.  The children all grew to maturity, married and are still living.  John lives at Napoleon, Mary is the wife of Andrew Dosh and lives at Cleveland, Ohio; and Samuel is a farmer of Monroe Township, Henry County, and has a family.  After leaving Fremont, the parents came to Henry County and here settled on a farm in Monroe Township, which they occupied until the time of their deaths.  The father passed away in 1883, when seventy-two years of age, while the mother, who was ten years his junior, had passed away before.  They were life-long members of the Lutheran Church and were representatives of that sturdy type of their race which has done so much to settle the world and to develop good living conditions from the wilderness places.  Mr. Fox was a democrat, but aside from casting his vote never took any part in politics, being fully satisfied to round out his life in the peaceful occupations connected with the successful operation of his farm and the rearing of his children to honest and honorable lives.      George F. Fox received his education in the district schools of Sandusky County, Ohio, and from earliest youth was taught the value of industry and perseverance.  He was fully instructed by his father in the various duties of agricultural work, and in 1882 began operations on his own account in Henry County, to which community he had come as a lad of fourteen years.  His first property was a tract of forty acres, located in the midst of the woods, an unimproved farm that taxed his best energies to make a success of.  He experienced many trials and hardships before he was able to produce favorable results from his land, but his perseverance and persistence finally won for him and he was successful in making a valuable property out of what had once been unimproved land.  Later he added forty acres to his original purchase, and still later another small tract, and when he left his land in 1905 he had eighty-seven acres under a high state of cultivation, this being substantial farm buildings.  In 1905 Mr. Fox removed to the vicinity of Holgate.  He had already tasted of the fruits of success, and, on locating in his new community was sure of his ability and experienced sufficiently to go about improving his land in a resolute and assured manner.  Again he developed a good property, and during the nine years that he lived at Holgate became known as one of the progressive and enterprising men of that locality.  Disposing of his land there advantageously, Mr. Fox came in 1914 to Pleasant Township, where, in Section 32, he bought 100 acres of land, all of which he now has under cultivation with the exception of seventeen acres of timber land.  His buildings here are modern in character, commodious in size and attractive in appearance, including a handsome country home, a substantial barn, 40 by 60 feet, with an 18 foot post; a corn crib with 1,600 bushels capacity, and a large granary upstairs which holds 3,000 bushels of small grain.  He has engaged for the most part in general farming, and grows practically everything that can be raised with success in this region.      Mr. Fox was married in Monroe Township, Henry County, Ohio, to Miss Lucinda Crist, who was born in Wyandotte County, Ohio, Mar. 14, 1857, and was there reared and educated.  She is a daughter of Perry and Margaret (Bachar) Crist, natives of Pennsylvania who were married in Ohio and lived in Wyandotte County for many years before coming to Henry County.  There they passed the remaining years of their lives in agricultural pursuits, the father dying at the age of seventy-five years and the mother when she was fifty-three years of age, and both are buried at the Edwards Cemetery, in Marion Township.  Mr. and Mrs. Crist were faithful members of the United Brethren Church.      After twenty years of happy married life Mrs. Fox died at the family home near Hogate, Jan. 13, 1901.  She was the mother of two children: Sarah H., who received a public school education, is unmarried and makes her home with her father; and Harvey Allen who is assisting his father in the work of the farm.  Harvey A. Fox married Lillie V. Rayle who was born in November, 1893, at Hamler, Henry County, Ohio, and there educated, a daughter of Perry and Elizabeth (Stevens) Rayle, natives of this state.  Mrs. Rayle died at Deshler, Ohio, in 1912, at the age of thirty-seven years, and Mr. Rayle still resides at that place.  Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Allen Fox are the parents of two children: Perry Frederick, who was born July 25, 1913, and Neva V., born Aug. 31, 1915.      George F. Fox and his family are members of the Presbyterian Church.  He is a democrat in his political tendencies, but that little part in public affairs, save in the casting of his ballot for the candidates of his party. Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ Publ. 1917 - Page 936

 

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