George E. Fox, chief clerk in the Grand Rapids post office, is a native of Michigan, born on the 8^th day of August, 1854, in the town of Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo county. William H. Fox, M. D., of Genesee, N. Y., father of George E., was for many years a distinguished physician and surgeon of Michigan, beginning the practice of his profession in 1830 at the town of Schoolcraft, and continued there until his death. Dr. Fox was a graduate of the New York School of Medicine, New York City, and achieved much more than a local reputation as a practitioner and amasses quite a fortune, the greater part of which was lost in the collapse of Jay Cook’s great Northern Pacific railway scheme. He was public spirited, and to him as much as to any one individual is the town of Schoolcraft indebted for much of the prosperity it now enjoys. He was a member of the Masonic order, in which he took a number of degrees, including that of Sir Knight and for a number of years was prominent in the councils of the republican party in his section of the state. Dr. Fox married in his native state Miss Martha Wright, who bore him two children, George E. and Sarah, of whom the latter became the wife of Peter F. Pursel, of Chicago. The doctor died in the year 1879, and the widow is making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Pursel, in Chicago.

The subject of this review was reared in Schoolcraft and received his education at the seminary there, which he attended regularly until his nineteenth year, making substantial progress in the meantime. Shortly after quitting school young Fox entered the railway mail service on the Lake Shore road, his route extending from Chicago to Buffalo, and he was thus employed until transferred to the Grand Rapids post-office as mailing clerk in May, 1884. He continued in the latter capacity until 1895, when he was made foreman of the clerical force of the office, and after filling that station very efficiently until 1899 was promoted chief clerk, a position he now holds. Mr. Fox is a very careful business man. Kind and courteous withal, and every duty pertaining to his official supervision. He is popular with the employees of the office and the people have ever found in him a most obliging public servant.

Mr. Fox was married November 25, 1873, in Elkhart, Ind., to Miss Hettie Stabler—a union blessed with three children: Edward, an employee, of Armour & Co., of Chicago; Harry, a graduate physician of the Physicians & Surgeons Medical college, Chicago, and Clovis, deceased. The mother of these children died in August, 1884, and in August, 1886, Mr. Fox married in Grand Rapids Mrs. Adele Wyeman, who was born in Troy, N. Y., daughter of Peter Lemrex; she has borne him one child, a son Roscoe.

Mr. Fox became a resident of Grand Rapids on taking his position in the post-office in 1884, and now has a home at No. 93 Bostwick street. Politically he is a republican and in religion a member of the Baptist church, to which his wife also belongs.