Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published
by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.  Reprinted by Southern Historical
Press.  p. 508.  Jefferson County.

FONTAINE T. FOX, a son of Fontaine Talbot Fox, subject of a preceding
article, was born in Somerset, Kentucky, June 10, 1836.  Good educational
privileges fitted him for almost any calling that he might choose to
follow; but, sprung from a race with a strong predilection for the law, as
he grew toward man's estate, he seemed to incline instinctively to the
favorite profession of his family.  He prepared for the practice of law
and with the course of time has demonstrated the possession of those
powers which enable him to maintain a place among the able representatives
of the legal fraternity.  His high standing among his associates and in
the city of Louisville, where he maintains his home, is shown by his
election and appointment to various offices.  He became a member of the
board of alderman of Louisville in 1868, was assistant city attorney from
1870 to 1873, and in 1878 was appointed by Governor McCreary as
vice-chancellor.  In 1886 he was the candidate of the Prohibition party
for governor of Kentucky and in the ranks of the temperance workers of
the state he has ever been a conspicuous figure.
     He married Miss Mary Barton, daughter of the late Professor Samuel
Barton, who for many years was professor of mathematics at Center
College, of Danville.  She died in October, 1894, leaving five children.
     Judge Fox is a man of broad scholarship and possesses wide
information on the questions of the day.  As a writer he is fluent,
logical and convincing, and his authorship includes two important works,
Fire Insurance Contracts and The Woman Suffrage Movement in the United
States.

Fox Barton
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Boyle-KY Somerset-Pulsaki-KY

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