Austen George Fox

Austen George Fox (September 7, 1849 – May 15, 1937) His younger sister, Rebecca Fox, was the wife of Dr. Benjamin Clapp Riggs, parents of Dr. Austen Fox Riggs.

A descendant of an old Quaker family, was the wife of Augustus Schell, the Collector of the Port of New York.

He was educated at Rev. John O'Choule's School in Newport, Rhode Island followed by Churchill's Military Academy in Sing Sing, New York. Fox graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. degree in 1869 and from Harvard Law School with an LL.B. degree in 1871. While at Harvard, he was a member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity. Eventually becoming the Fraternity's Phi Alpha for the 1890/1891 term.

Career After graduating from Harvard, he was admitted to the bar in New York in 1872 and began practicing, with an office at 45 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan. From 1895 to 1896, he was asked by John R. Fellows to be the special assistant District Attorney in the prosecution of police officials following the Lexow Committee investigation. In 1897, he was the Citizens Union nominee for New York County District Attorney, in the so-called "Low campaign", however, Democrat Asa Bird Gardiner was elected but later removed from office by then Governor Theodore Roosevelt. In January 1899, Governor Roosevelt appointed Fox special counsel to assist Attorney General John C. Davies in the investigation of charges against George W. Aldridge, the former Commissioner of Public Works and Campbell W. Adams, the former State Engineer, in connection with the deepening of the Erie Canal under what became known as the "Nine Million Dollar Act." The committee, which was largely unsuccessful, disbanded in 1901 (and was succeeded by the Committee of Fourteen) after evaluating the investigations and reporting to Governor Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. Fox himself participated in the raids:

He later served as chairman of the Committee of Nine on police problems in 1905. He also served as chairman of the Anti-Imperialistic League. who was eventually found guilty and replaced by his Lieutenant Governor, Martin H. Glynn. Previously, Fox had "turned down tentative advances to be a member of" Wilson's Cabinet. Nevertheless, Brandeis was confirmed and served on the Court from June 1916 until his retirement on February 13, 1939. During Herbert Hoover's presidency, he charged that "Hoover had violated his oath of office by calling for the passage of State Prohibition Acts. On the tenth anniversary of the passage of Volstead Act he warned of a 'spirit of revolt abroad' and counseled President Hoover to 'beware lest it be carried into revolution.'" Alice was the daughter of Anna Almy (née Jenkins) and Thomas Frederick Hoppin and was the sister of Anna Jenkins Hoppin (who married Dr. Frederick Windle Chapin and was the mother of Anna Alice Chapin) and a relative of architect Howard Hoppin. Together, they lived at 37 East 39th Street (later purchased by the Princeton Club of New York) and 15 East 82nd Street (only briefly),

Austen Hoppin Fox (1877–1946), who also attended Harvard Law School. Henry Fox (1883–1884), who died in infancy. a pioneer cancer surgeon, in June 1917.

On December 2, 1872, he was elected a member of the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York, an organization in New York City of men descended from early inhabitants of the State of New York. He also served as a member of the board of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Fox was a member of the Harvard Club of New York (of which he served as president in 1904 to 1905 and again 1908 to 1909), the Harvard Union, the City Club of New York, the Century Association, the University Club, the Players' Club, and the St Andrews Golf Club. After a funeral at Grace Church in Providence, he was buried at Swan Point Cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island.