Dr. Joseph Andrew Fox

From: A history of Summers County, West Virginia, p. 375.

Dr. Fox is a native of Meigs County, Ohio, but was reared in Jackson County, West Virginia. He is of direct German descent, his father being a German, and the original Dutch spelling of the name was Fuchs. Dr. Fox emigrated to Summers County about fifteen years ago, and engaged in the occupation of barber, by which means he procured the funds to attend the Concord Normal School, and later a medical college, the University of Maryland, graduating from the University of Nashville College of Medicine in 1903. After his graduation he stood a successful examination before the medical examiners of West Virginia, located at Hinton, and entered into active practice in July, 1902. He has worked himself up from the ground floor, starting without means, money or prestige, and is now one of the men of financial means in Summers County, owning large interests in real estate. His brothers, Ed., Jake and William, also located in Hinton and followed the barber business for some time, Jake now being engaged in the butcher business, and Ed. and William still operating the barber shop. Dr. Fox is interested in a number of the leading enterprises of this section, having been the promoter of the Hinton Toll Bridge Company and one of its largest stockholders. He supervised its construction, securing franchises, rights of way, etc. He is also interested in the laundry business and other successful enterprises. He was born on the 4th day of January, 1875, and married Miss A. M. Rush in May, 1897. Dr. Fox is also a graduate in pharmacy in the University of the South. His father's name, in German, is Adams Fuchs; his mother's maiden name was Catherine Wink, and she is also a native German. They emigrated from Germany to America soon after their marriage, thirty-eight years ago, and first located in Meigs County, and then across the Ohio River into Jackson County, West Virginia, where they now reside.