History of [the] life and adventures of Captain Henry Fox, 1933.

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History of [the] life and adventures of Captain Henry Fox, 1933.

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Typed (copy) of the History of [the] life and adventures of Captain Henry Fox, 1933. His granddaughter, Margaret May, typed the manuscript in Dec. 1933. The History describes his life growing up on Beaver Island, Strangite Mormons, and the killing of James Jesse Strang. His family soon moved to Pine River (Mich.). At age 14 he bought a sailing ship, spending the rest of his life owning and operating various vessels. Fox married at 16 and had at least five children. He traveled widely in Mich., Wis., Ill., Iowa, and Tex., while working in the shipping business, lumber mills, lime kilns, a shell button business, making telegraph poles, and operating an oyster business. He described the burning of the Grace Dormer (Steamer) at St. James (Beaver Island, Mich.) in 1872. His oldest son, Archie Fox, was the assistant lighthouse keeper at Half Moon Lighthouse in Tex., which experienced a terrific storm in 1919, which he also described in his History.

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