Jacob Fox

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation. I found that I was successful in managing a farm and over time accumulated enough land to present 100-acre farms to each of my children and still have a 360-acre homestead for myself.

Jacob married Magdalanna Wigle, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, about 1811 in Gosfield Township, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. (Magdalanna Wigle was born in 1796 and died in Apr 1828 in Kingsville, Essex, Ontario, Canada.)

Jacob next married Elizabeth McLean about 1828. (Elizabeth McLean was born on 13 May 1788 in Essex County, Ontario, Canada and died in 1896.)

  Marriage Notes:

Elizabeth McLean 1 4 SmartMatches Birth: 13 May 1788 in Essex County, Ont. 1 Death: 1896 1

Children: George Jacob Fox b. 4 Jul 1829 d. April 13, 1912 Peter Fox b. 23 Mar 1833 in Gosfield Township, Essex d. January 10, 1918 Leamington, Ontario Abigail Fox b. 7 Sep 1845

Toward the latter period of the Civil war Mr. Ackles was engaged in Canada in buying horses for the United States government and while thus employed in County Essex Ontario, met his future wife. On August 20, 1865, he married the lady-Miss Abigail Fox-born in the county named, September 7, 1845, the youngest of the three children born to Jacob and Elizabeth (McLean) Fox. Her brothers, George and Peter, are both farmers of County Essex. Her family is of Dutch and Irish extraction, and both parents were members of the Church of England. They were married in County Essex, where Jacob Fox prospered as a farmer for many years, dying on July 19, 1869, at the age of seventy-nine. His wife, the mother of Mrs. Ackles, lived to the advanced age of ninety years, the date of her death being June 9, 1895. Jacob Fox had been twice married, his first wife, a Miss Wigle, of County Essex, dying in 1825, at the age of thirty-five, mother of the following: Julia Ann, deceased, Mrs. John Snyder; John I. and Jacob (deceased), residents of County Essex; Susan, Mrs. George McLean, of the county named; Sarah, Mrs. John Arner, living in the same county; Ann, deceased, Mrs. George Noble; and William, also a resident of County Essex. That the father attained to an unusual degree of prosperity may be safely inferred in that he reared all the children spared to him to maturity, and that to all of his sons and one daughter, Ann, he presented farms of one hundred acres each, still retaining at the time of his death a fine homestead of 360 acres.

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Toward the latter period of the Civil war Mr. Ackles was engaged in Canada in buying horses for the United States government and while thus employed in County Essex Ontario, met his future wife. On August 20, 1865, he married the lady-Miss Abigail Fox-born in the county named, September 7, 1845, the youngest of the three children born to Jacob and Elizabeth (McLean) Fox. Her brothers, George and Peter, are both farmers of County Essex. Her family is of Dutch and Irish extraction, and both parents were members of the Church of England. They were married in County Essex, where Jacob Fox prospered as a farmer for many years, dying on July 19, 1869, at the age of seventy-nine. His wife, the mother of Mrs. Ackles, lived to the advanced age of ninety years, the date of her death being June 9, 1895. Jacob Fox had been twice married, his first wife, a Miss Wigle, of County Essex, dying in 1825, at the age of thirty-five, mother of the following: Julia Ann, deceased, Mrs. John Snyder; John I. and Jacob (deceased), residents of County Essex; Susan, Mrs. George McLean, of the county named; Sarah, Mrs. John Arner, living in the same county; Ann, deceased, Mrs. George Noble; and William, also a resident of County Essex. That the father attained to an unusual degree of prosperity may be safely inferred in that he reared all the children spared to him to maturity, and that to all of his sons and one daughter, Ann, he presented farms of one hundred acres each, still retaining at the time of his death a fine homestead of 360 acres.

North Star Township Biography

TIMOTHY D. ACKLES



Source: BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF GRATIOT COUNTY, MICHIGAN published by J. B. BEERS & CO., Chicago, 1906