Fox and Simon family papers, 1862-1991.

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Fox and Simon family papers, 1862-1991.

1862-1991

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/05363/

The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and other papers documenting five generations of the Fox, Simon, Whiting, Cherrie, and McMillan families. The bulk of the correspondence relates to the Fox and Simon families and documents married life in the early and mid-20th century and intergenerational relationships, especially between parents and their adolescent and adult children. There is extensive correspondence, including love letters, between Agnes Whiting Fox and Philip Fox and between Elizabeth Simon Fox and Edward Whiting Fox. Topics include family news and domestic concerns; physical and mental health concerns; intellectual pursuits and higher education; boarding school and college experiences in Europe and the United States; the influenza epidemic of 1918; homefront life during World War I; civic activities of women; and New York City society during the 1930s. The earliest letters are of the McMillan and Cherrie families of Knoxville, Iowa, during the Civil War. Later Cherrie correspondence chiefly documents the expeditions of naturalist George Kruck Cherrie to various locales in Central and South America. Letters to Philip Fox illustrate the social and professional pursuits of young college men at the turn of the 20th century. Photographs are chiefly black-and-white portraits and candids of Fox, Simon, and Whiting family members. There are a few slides, negatives, tintypes, panotypes, and an ambrotype. Other papers include a few diaries of Betty Simon Fox; teaching materials and writings of Edward Whiting Fox; homemade valentines and cards; a Morgenthau-Simon family genealogical scrapbook; and miscellaneous clippings, writings, notes, sketches, and postcard scrapbooks of Fox family members.

ca. 3000 items (7.0 linear feet)

eng, Latn

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6959225

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 1941-2007

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Elizabeth Fox-Genovese was a feminist, author, and professor of women's studies and history who was known for her evolution from Marxist-leaning secularist to Roman Catholic and vocal presence in the conservative women's movement. While her early writings focused on French history and translations, Fox-Genovese later wrote extensively on southern women, slavery, and feminism. Fox-Genovese taught at University of Rochester (N.Y.), the State University of New York at Binghamton, and Emory Universi...

Fox, Edward Whiting, Jr.

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Edward Whiting "Teddy" Fox, Jr. (1943- ) is the son of Edward Whiting Fox and brother of Elizabeth Ann Fox-Genovese....

Fox family.

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The Fox family of Cohasset and Springfield, Mass., and the Simon family of New York City, N.Y., were joined by the marriage of Edward Whiting Fox (1911-1996) and Elizabeth Simon in 1935. Edward Whiting Fox ( Teddy in his youth, Ed later on) was the only son of Agnes Whiting Fox, a teacher before she married, and Philip Fox, an engineer and later a director of a trade school. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University. A prominent European history scholar, Fox brie...

Simon family.

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The Fox family of Cohasset and Springfield, Mass., and the Simon family of New York City, N.Y., were joined by the marriage of Edward Whiting Fox (1911-1996) and Elizabeth Simon in 1935. Edward Whiting Fox ( Teddy in his youth, Ed later on) was the only son of Agnes Whiting Fox, a teacher before she married, and Philip Fox, an engineer and later a director of a trade school. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University. A prominent European history scholar, Fox brie...

Fox family.

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Fox, Elizabeth Simon.

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Fox, Agnes Whiting.

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McMillan family.

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Simon, Robert E., 1877-1935.

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Simon family.

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Fox, Philip C.

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Fox, Edward Whiting

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Edward Whiting Fox (1911-1996) was a prominent scholar of European history, receiving his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Fox briefly served as an Assistant Secretary of State for policy analysis during the Truman administration before joining the history faculty at Cornell University where he spent most of his career teaching. Known as "Teddy" in his youth and as "Ed" in later life, Fox was the only son of Agnes Whiting Fox, a teacher before she married, and Philip Fox, an eng...

Morganthau family.

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Simmons family.

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Cherry family.

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Cherrie, George K. (George Kruck), 1865-

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George K. Cherrie, field zoologist and curator. Cherrie explored and collected in South and Central America, independently and for institutions, including the American Museum of Natural History, the Field Museum, and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Cherrie became assistant taxidermist at the U.S. Museum of Natural History in 1888, and began his tropical field work in 1889, spending three years in Costa Rica and becoming curator of birds and mammals. Cherrie ...