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Fontaine Talbot Fox was born June 4, 1884 in Louisville, Kentucky, to Judge Fontaine Talbot Fox Jr. and Mary Pitkin Barton Fox.  He was the oldest of their five children. A younger sister, Frances B. Fox was a well-known writer who published under the name of Frances Renard.  Another sister, Mary Yandell Fox, married Adolph Reutlinger from Louisville, Kentucky, and to the best of our knowledge, decendants of this family still live in the Louisville area.  We have no information about his two brothers, Barton Fox or Jesse St. John Fox.

Fox graduated from Louisville Male High School in 1904 and in 1908 left Louisville and worked on the staff of the Chicago Post newspaper until 1915.  During this time, Fox joined the Wheeler Syndicate and eventually moved to New York.  Fox married Edith Elizabeth Hinz of Chicago, Illinois, in 1915 and they had two daughters, Elizabeth Fox and Mary Barton Fox. 

For the next twenty years, Fox lived in Port Washington, Nassau County, New York, and Roslyn, L.I., New York. During this period he left Wheeler Syndicate to join McNaught Syndicate and around 1920 moved again to Bell Syndicate.  From the period of 1936 tillt 1964, Fox spent summers in New York and winterss in Florida.  He died in Greenwich, Connecticut on August 9, 1964. 

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