A. F. Fox came to America when he was a lad of 13 with his German mother and father and siblings. Landing in New York City, through Castle Garden in 1881, they found a language barrier which was most distressing. Quickly moving to a more wholesome environment, the family found work for a dairy near Chicago, Illinois.
The migration continued when they later moved to Waubaunsee County, Kansas. A. F. worked with a haying crew, and later became established with his own business, Fox and Wolf Creamery. He then, married the lovely school marm, Ida Sue Scott, to fill his home with love, charm, and social graces. Their children were Fred, John, Irma and Ulah Mae. The family moved to the Hooker area, buying up land from Jake Holzrichter, Southwest of Hooker. A. F. brought one of the early day Huge steam tractors to the area, farming and raising his family there.
Just up the road was the Buffalo School House, a two room school house his children attended. A.F. Fox was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge. In later years, the couple moved into Hooker, living in a two story house a block south of the local grade school. With a breezy gazebo in the front yard, A.F. would entertain his grandchildren with stories, and his prowess at spitting tobacco as he enjoyed his Peachy Plug Chew.
From his family would spring Doctors, Farmers and Ranchers, Election Board workers, Prize winning cooks, Gardeners, Missionaries, Poets, Artists and more to enrich this new land, this America.
A. F. Fox came to America when he was a lad of 13 with his German mother and father and siblings. Landing in New York City, through Castle Garden in 1881, they found a language barrier which was most distressing. Quickly moving to a more wholesome environment, the family found work for a dairy near Chicago, Illinois.
The migration continued when they later moved to Waubaunsee County, Kansas. A. F. worked with a haying crew, and later became established with his own business, Fox and Wolf Creamery. He then, married the lovely school marm, Ida Sue Scott, to fill his home with love, charm, and social graces. Their children were Fred, John, Irma and Ulah Mae. The family moved to the Hooker area, buying up land from Jake Holzrichter, Southwest of Hooker. A. F. brought one of the early day Huge steam tractors to the area, farming and raising his family there.
Just up the road was the Buffalo School House, a two room school house his children attended. A.F. Fox was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge. In later years, the couple moved into Hooker, living in a two story house a block south of the local grade school. With a breezy gazebo in the front yard, A.F. would entertain his grandchildren with stories, and his prowess at spitting tobacco as he enjoyed his Peachy Plug Chew.
From his family would spring Doctors, Farmers and Ranchers, Election Board workers, Prize winning cooks, Gardeners, Missionaries, Poets, Artists and more to enrich this new land, this America.
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