Looking for a Victor Fox photo or drawing...

[Yoc]

Congrats on finding these David!
Very exciting stuff.

[Yoc]

Now I've just heard about this photo up on Comicvine that someone has posted there suggesting it's Victor Fox.
No proof, etc is offered so it should be taken with a large helping of salt.

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/6/69951/3056871-gfhjjkk.png

From here -
http://www.comicvine.com/victor-fox/4040-49436/

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The same site shares a lot of other pictures of 'comics gods'.  Lev Gleason and some others are totally new to me.
http://www.comicvine.com/profile/turoksonofstone/lists/comic-book-gods/18620/

Here's a link for one they say is Fletcher Hanks of Stardust fame -
http://www.comicvine.com/fletcher-hanks/4040-56582/

[Geo (RIP)]

Yoc I sent you a PM with a link to the page that the picture was posted on.
Hope that will help some.

Geo

[Yoc]

Hi Geo,
Yeah, that's the first one I shared above.
Thanks for the interesting link!

[David Lawrence]

That photo has been around for a while.  If you track down the whole set it comes from the rest of the names don't match the Fox family and the location is wrong as well.

Highly unlikely it is "the" Victor Fox.

Have written a few sources where there might be a photo but have not yet had any success.

[Yoc]

I thought as much.  The Fletcher Hanks is one I'd love to know if it was him.

Good luck on the sources Dave, really would love to see something!

[Yoc]

Hi Gang,
Just got back from doing some digging on Ancenstry.com and learned a few things new to me.  Some might be old news but I might as well list them all here.

Victor S. Fox
Born: Apr. 13, 1893 in England.
Father: Joseph     Mother: Bessie
Wife: Carolyne B Fox   Married: 1943
Listed on an Air Canada flight from Toronto in 1941 as single, 5' 7", black hair, brown eyes. No distiguishing marks.  (This is not when he immigrated.)
Lived in Rockridge, Conn. in 1947.
Possibly died May 14, 1953 and intered in the St. Paul Luterian Cemetary, Red Hill, Montgomery County, PA
I'm not 100% on this last one.  It's a veteran's cemetary

David says this was not our Fox.

[JonTheScanner]

If he first came to the US in 1941 when he was 38, and that is not clear from your data, it doesn't seem likely he'd be buried in a veterans cemetery, as it seems unlikely he'd have served in the US military.

[David Lawrence]

I think Jon is misinterpreting part of Yoc's post.  That 1941 air manifest is indeed THE Victor Fox but it's not his immigration to the US.  The Fox family arrived prior to 1898, though I don't think I've been able to find the exact date of immigration.

The Montgomery PA Victor Fox, however, is not our guy.  Our Victor died July 3, 1957 in Greenwich, Connecticut.  I believe I have the name of the cemetery somewhere but I can't seem to find it right now.

Fox did spend some time in the military circa WW1, July 26 - December 24 1918, but was never deployed overseas.  He may have avoided service for a time because he had a company that produced military uniforms.

And the maiden name of his mother is not Rosenberg.  It is something along the lines of Duchansky; the spelling varies.  I believe that she had relatives in the Fall River MA area, where the Foxes originally settled, as did Joseph.

[Yoc]

Thanks for the corrections David.  I meant to clarify it but forgot to later.
While Ancestry.com showed me a lot I sure wish they made it easier to concentrate a search down once you feel you have the correct person. Our Fox never shows a S.I.N. number, etc to help zero in on.  The second Fox burried in Montgomery PA kept creeping up in my search attempts. Oh well, at least the 1941 air manifest was correct and new to me.

I had not much luck at all with my searhes on Ogden Whitney.
-Yoc

[David Lawrence]

Frustrating, isn't it?  I'm two years in on my search for a photo, I think.

Maybe someday.

[mopee167]

Have you guys seen David Saunders' article on Victor S Fox:

http://www.pulpartists.com/Fox-P.html

David does his own research and is pretty good regarding accuracy.

[David Lawrence]

The info is solid but the photo is wrong; it's a different Victor Fox from a west coast Fox family.  The source is here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/105472361420541432574/PicturesFromMargaretKearns
Someone picked this up ages ago and it has circulated erroneously since.

One interesting fact Saunders missed: Fox's sister Janet is the mother of composer Stephen Soundheim, making him Victor's nephew.

[Yoc]

Thanks mopee,
I knew the site but hadn't seen this before now. Wow, a lot of dots get nicely connected.
If only the photo was correct...

-Yoc

[crashryan]

If the guy was such a crook was he ever arrested? A booking photo somewhere? Only half kidding. Anyway even back then business crooks didn't often wind up in custody.