THE people

Frederick Morton Fox

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:
April 6, 1865
DATE OF DEATH:
March 2, 1904
GENDER:
M
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
Frederick M Fox, Morton Fox
ETHNICITY:
KNOWN ADDRESS:
 Dover 
 Delaware
RELATED TO:

Emilie Hoyt Fox, wife
George Sidney Fox, son
William Hoyt Fox, son
Emilie Lydia Fox, daughter
George Sidney Fox & Amanda (Hickey) Fox, parents

AT THE TIME OF the fire

AGE:
38
MARITAL STATUS:
Married
ROLE:
ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:
ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:

other information

CEMETERY:
Graceland Cemetery, Chicago IL
MORGUE:
IDENTIFIED BY:
OTHER NOTES:

From a guidebook for Graceland Cemetery:
"Sometimes the stories are heartbreaking, such as the one about the family of grocer William M. Hoyt. In the Hoyt family plot, just to the north of a towering monument, is a row of five small headstones. Four of the family members in these graves died on the same day: Dec. 30, 1903. The Lanctot booklet explains that they were Emilie Hoyt Fox and her three children, ages 9 to 15, among the more than 600 people killed in the deadly Iroquois Theater fire. The fifth grave is for Emile's husband, Frederick Morton Fox, who died of grief two months later."

 

CITATION:

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) Fri Dec 03 1886 Page 1
The Evening Journal (Wilmington Delaware) Monday, January 4, 1904, page 1
Smyrna Times (Smyrna, Delaware) Wed, Jan 06, 1904 Page 5
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) Thu, Mar 03, 1904 Page 1
Smyrna Times (Smyrna, Delaware) Wed Mar 09 1904 p1
https://www.iroquoistheater.com/fox-higginson-hoyt-iroquois-theater-party-of-7-fatalities.php
Ancestry.com. U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Iroquois Theatre Fire Historical Society, Judy Cooke

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