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BIOGRAPHIES
† Source:
A. History of Northwestern Ohio
A Narrative of Its Historical Progress and
Development
from the First European Exploration of the Maumee and
Sandusky Valleys and the Adjacent Shores of
Lake Erie, down to the Present Time
by Nevin O. Winter, Litt. D.
Assisted by a Board of Advisory and Contributing Editors
Illustrated
Vol. II
Published by
The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago and New York
1917
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JOSEPH
F. FOX, M. D. A surgeon and gynecologist who is one of
the eminent men in his profession in Northwest Ohio, Doctor Fox
has arrived at his present position through long and thorough
experience, careful training both in America and abroad, and at the
age of fifty has many years of usefulness still before him.
A native of Ohio, he was born in the old Town of
Yorktown, now called Joyce, in Tuscarawas County, October 19,
1866. His parents were Christian and Elizabeth (Affolter)
Fox. His father was born in Ohio of German parentage, and
spent all his life in Tuscarawas
County, where he died in 1913 at the age of seventy-eight. He
was a farmer and a local leader in the democratic party, holding
several
county offices. Doctor Fox's mother was born in
Switzerland, and when eight years of age crossed the Atlantic with
her parents in one of the old-time sailing vessels. They were
on the ocean 101 days. Her people located in Tuscarawas
County, where Doctor Fox was born and at a time when
that section of Ohio was still wild. She had begun her
schooling in Canton Berne, Switzerland, and continued in the public
schools of Ohio. Both parents lived beyond the allotted time
of man and the mother died suddenly in 1908 at the
age of seventy-one. They were active members of the Reform
Church. In the family were eight children, five daughters and
three
sons. One daughter died in girlhood and the doctor's two older
sisters have since passed away. He is the youngest of three
living sons, while his two sisters are younger than himself.
All his brothers are farmers and all live in the home county except
himself.
Doctor Fox grew up in a typical rural
environment. The little schoolhouse he attended as a boy was
located near his home and on the banks of a creek. After he
was nine years of age he attended school in the winter terms and
worked on the farm the rest of the year. He has always
retained an interest in farming, and has developed this interest
productively as a fruit grower. For five months he was a student in
Calvin College, a preparatory school at Cleveland, and he spent ten
weeks in the Ohio Normal University at Ada. One winter and a
spring term were spent in teaching in his home county. While
teaching he had begun the study of medicine, and in the fall of 1884
he entered upon a regular routine of study. Prior to that his
ambition had been to become a civil engineer. An old friend
dissuaded him from this course. For two years he was in
Starling Medical College at Columbus and finished his course in the
medical department of Wooster University at Cleveland, now the
medical department of Western Reserve University. He was graduated
Doctor of Medicine July 27, 1887.
Nearly thirty years have passed since Doctor
Fox entered the ranks of practitioners as a doctor of medicine.
He has never ceased to be a student. Again and again he has
interrupted his practice in order to pursue post graduate work, and
is a man of wide and deep culture, not only in his profession, but
in other departments of scholarship. After about three years
of practice at Sparta, Ohio, he spent nine months in post-graduate
work in the New York Policlinic. On returning from New York
City he opened an office at New Philadelphia, Ohio. There he
was engaged in general practice in medicine and surgery for nine
years.
While at New Philadelphia Doctor Fox
founded a private hospital, known as the New Philadelphia Hospital.
He had the distinction of being the first professional man in that
vicinity to perform surgery, other operations having been usually
performed by surgeons called in from a distance. He gave the
hospital a high standing and it was widely patronized. Every
other year while at New Philadelphia he spent from three to four
months in post-graduate work in the various medical centers of
America. During the winter of 1896-97 he was in Johns Hopkins
University at Baltimore under Dr. Howard Kelley,
and was there when the first word came to America about the
wonderful discovery of the X-ray, in January, 1897. He also
took post-graduate work in Chicago, San Francisco, New York City and
Boston, Massachusetts.
In the spring of 1900 Doctor Fox went abroad and for
eight months was a visitor at the hospitals and clinics in
Birmingham, Liverpool and London, England, and also in Paris and
Brussels. In the summer of 1901 he came to Toledo, and since
locating in that city has confined his practice to surgery and
gynecology, a large part of his practice being consultation work in
connection with diseases of women.
For his high standing as a surgeon he received the
degree of Fellow of the American College of Surgeons at Boston,
Massachusetts, in October, 1915. He is one of the
comparatively few medical men in Northwest Ohio to have this
distinction. He belongs to the Academy of Medicine in Lucas
County, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical
Association, the American Association of Surgeons.
Doctor Fox has never married. His offices
are in the Produce Exchange at Toledo, and his offices are also
local headquarters of the Conservative Life Insurance Company of
Wheeling, West Virginia, and he is examined for that company.
Doctor Fox is a democrat, but knew the late
President McKinley at Canton before that statesman became
President and loyally supported him. He is affiliated with the
Knights of Pythias.
He is a man of wide interests. As a youth at
Yorktown he played in the brass band, his old home town subsequently
being named Joyce, in honor of a man who started a coal mine
there. One recreation which he pursues with much ardor is
hunting. He is a lover of literature and books. At
Toledo he has one of the finest private libraries in the city, not
only comprising medical works, but standard literature and histories
covering a wide range both ancient and modern. During his
boyhood days his many boy friends always anticipated his discoveries
from books and almost daily he was addressed by some one of them
with the question: "Well, Joe, what have you been reading
lately; tell us about it?" His chief hobby is the cultivation
of fruit. He has a small orchard a short distance from Toledo
and takes great pride in that, and at the present time he is working
up a plan to interest his friends and others in a large fruit
orchard of some 200 acres in Maryland, close to all the large
markets of the United States.
† Source: History of
Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ 1917 - Page 1044 |
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GEN.
JOHN W. FULLER. In the late Gen. John W. Fuller
who died Mar. 12, 1891, Toledo had one of its most distinguished
characters, one whose citizenship and attainments were not merely
local, but national. He was one of the finest officers of the
Union army during the Civil war, and rose almost from the ranks by
merit and efficiency to the post of brigadier general of volunteers
and after the close of the war was brevetted major general.
During the greater portion of his long life his home was in Toledo.
He became prominently identified with that city's business affairs,
and served the city well whether as a private in the ranks or in
some public capacity.
No native American surpassed him in loyalty and steadfast
devotion to his adopted country. John W. Fuller was
born at Cambridge, England, July 28, 1826. At the age of
seven, in 1833 he was brought to the United States. His
father, a minister of the Baptist Church, was a graduate of
Cambridge University, and after coming to America settled at Utica,
New York. In that city General Fuller spent his boyhood and
early manhood Most of his education was directed under the personal
supervision of his cultured father. Both before and after the
war General Fuller was for many years identified with the
book selling and publishing business. Along that line he built
up a very profitable establishment, but in 1859 his store was
destroyed by fire. Soon afterward he moved to Toledo, Ohio,
and was soon re-established in the book trade both as a dealer and
publisher. His house took a front rank in that line of
business among the publishing houses of the Middle West. It
was from this quiet routine of business that he was called into the
strenuous arena of civil warfare.
At the very outbreak of the war he promptly tendered
his services to hi home state. Governor Dennison early
in the war appointed General Charles W. Hill as brigadier
general of the Ohio troops and General Hill selected Mr.
Fuller as his chief of staff. His first service was in one
of the early campaigns in West Virginia. While he was at
Grafton engaged in drilling raw recruits, influences, unknown to
him, were working for his first important promotion.
General T. J. Cram of the regular army, wrote to Adjutant
General C. P. Buckingham, the following words: "There is a young
man at Grafton by the name of John W. Fuller who knows more
about military matters, the drilling of men, etc., than any one I
have yet met in the service, and I hope that you will recommend him
to Governor Dennison as the colonel of the next Ohio regiment
sent to the field." As this recommendation was made entirely
without Mr. Fullers knowledge, he was naturally surprised
when the telegraph came to him from the adjutant general of Ohio
ordering him to report at Columbus to take command of the 27th Ohio
Infantry. Within two weeks Colonel Fuller had
selected from a disorganized mass of two thousand men the material
for his new regiment. The 27th Ohio was mustered in Aug. 18,
1861, for three years, and two days later started for St. Louis.
In the campaign of 1861-62 which drove the rebel forces
out of Southern Missouri, Colonel Fuller took an active part.
In February, 1862, he joined the Union forces under Gen.
John Pope, engaged in the reduction of New Madrid and
Island No. 10 along the Mississippi. During that campaign his
individual bravery and the superior efficiency with which he handled
his men drew forth many commendations from his higher officers.
Though still with the rank of colonel, he was not long afterward
assigned to the command of the Ohio brigade, composed of the
Twenty-seventh, Thirty-ninth, Forty-third and Sixty-third Ohio
regiments. He led this brigade in the hotly contested battle
of Iuka, Mississippi, in September, 1862, and in the following month
again distinguished himself in the battle of Corinth. Here he
checked the charge of the enemy, broke the Confederate lines, and
his services received the personal thanks of General
Rosecrans, in the presence of the entire brigade.
From that time forward he was almost constantly in
service on some of the great campaigns and in many of the most
important battles which resulted in driving a wedge through the
heart of the Confederacy. In December, 1862, General
Fuller defeated the famous Confederate cavalryman Forrest in the
action at Parker's Cross Roads, Tennessee. He then had command
of the post at Memphis until October, 1863. During the winter
of 1863-64 his brigade was engaged in guarding the Nashville &
Decatur Railroad, and during that time, their first term of
enlistment having expired, the Twenty-seventh Ohio re-enlisted and
enjoyed their veteran furlough.
In the spring of 1864 the Ohio Brigade was assigned to
the Army of the Tennessee as the First Brigade, Fourth Division,
Sixteenth Corps. General Fuller bore a very
active part in that splendid campaign which marked the advance from
Chattanooga to Atlanta. He was present at the battles of
Dallas, Snake Creek Gap, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain and Nickajack
Creek. On the morning of July 22d, while the Sixteenth Corps, under
the command of General Dodge, was moving to the
extreme left to extend the lines still further about the City of
Atlanta, it encountered General Hardee's Confederate
Corps, which had made a detour the preceding night with a view to
attacking General McPherson in the rear. Thus it
came about that General Fuller's Division commenced
the historic battle of Atlanta. In the engagement that
followed the first attack, it became necessary for Fuller's
Division to change front while under fire in order to repel a charge
from the rear. In executing this movement the column gave way.
Seeing the crisis, General Fuller seized the flag of
the Twenty-seventh and advancing toward the enemy indicated with his
sword where he wanted the new line formed. His example was
contagious. With a cheer the Twenty-seventh Ohio swung into
line, the other regiments of the brigade and division quickly
following, and the day was saved. It was his valor and the
steady courage which he exhibited in an emergency which brought
Colonel Fuller his promotion to brigadier general.
After fighting at Ezra Church and Jonesboro, his brigade was
transferred to the Seventeenth Corps under General Blair, as the
First Brigade, First Division. Thence followed the famous
march to the sea under General Sherman. After
the fall of Savannah in December, 1864, there ensued the campaign
through the Carolinas. General Fuller's command
distinguished itself at the Salkehatchie River, Cheraw and numerous
other engagements. It was present at the surrender of General
Johnston's forces in Carolina, in North Carolina and then
went on with Sherman's victorious army through Richmond to
Washington, District of Columbia, After the Grand Review at
Washington the old Twenty-seventh Ohio was mustered out.
On Mar 13, 1865, General Fuller was
brevetted major general of volunteers "for gallant and meritorious
services." On the 15th of August he resigned his commission, and
returned to Toledo. While most of his subsequent career was
one of business and mercantile activity, he was honored in 1874 by
President Grant in the appointment as Collector of the
Port of Toledo, and was reappointed by President Hayes.
He held the office until 1881. For many years General
Fuller was senior member of the wholesale boot and shoe house
of Fuller, Childs & Company, whose establishment on
Summit Street was one of the most important in the whole sale
district. At the time of his death he was a director of the
Merchants National Bank and the Toledo Moulding Company.
Politically General Duller had been a democrat
before the ear, but afterwards exhibited an ardent loyalty for the
principles of the Grand Old Party which he had espoused during the
war. He was long one of the valued working members of the
First Baptist Church of Toledo. As one of the distinguished
military figures in Ohio, he took much interest in the Toledo Post
of the Grand Army of the Republic and was a member of the Ohio
Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion.
On Sept. 2, 1851, at Utica, New York, General Fuller
married Miss Anna B. Rathbun She was born in Utica
June 20, 1826, a daughter of Josiah Rathbun, and she died at
Toledo, June 4, 1901, a little more than ten years after the death
of her husband. To their marriage were born six children:
Edward C. a director of the United States Cast Iron Pipe
Company; Jennie R.; Rathbun Fuller a prominent Toledo
attorney; Mrs. Thomas A. Taylor; Frederick C.; and
Irene B. Of these children Rathbun, Frederick C.,
Jennie R. and Mrs. Thomas A. Taylor, still live in
Toledo.
† Source: History of
Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ 1917 - Page 1075 |
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