Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 576:
Gordon Fox, a thrifty farmer and president of the Erie Tobacco Company, of Windsor, is a member of one of the old pioneer families of this locality.
Great-grandfather Jacob Fox married Madeline Wigle, and their children were: Julianna married Jacob Snyder; John J.; Jacob married Elizabeth Lypps; Susan married George McLean; Sarah married John Arner; Ann married George Noble; William married Eliza Young.
Grandfather John J. Fox was born in Colchester, March 22, 1814, and married Elizabeth Godwin, who was born March 1, 1819, in England. The following family was born to this marriage: William, who died at the age of seventeen years; Melinda, who married William H. Lovelace; Alexa, who married Samuel Foster, of Kingsville; and Darius, father of Gordon. John J. Fox, father of this family, began as a farmer on the present Zenas Orton farm, then consisting of 200 acres, and he underwent the privations incident to a pioneer life. He added to his holdings until he had 500 acres, and continued farming until 1880, when he came to Ruthven, and lived retired until his death which occurred June 1, 1902, when he was 88 years of age. His wife died Sept. 10, 1900, aged eighty-two years, and both are interred in Ruthven cemetery.
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