Individual Details

In Collin county the first wholesale grocery house established was due to the enterprise of George W. Fox, who for a number of years was identified with the business and has since been in the real estate and loan business at McKinney. His record as a business man and citizen is well known in that part of Texas and he has spent all his life in Collin county and has made his career one of value both to himself and to his community. His birth occurred on a farm in Collin county March 30, 1867. His parents, S. H. and Sallie (Barnes) Fox, were both natives of Missouri, came from that state to Texas and were early settlers of Collin county. George W. Fox, who was the sixth in a family of fourteen children, seven of whom are living, was educated in the public schools of Collin county, took a business course at Dallas and had his first regular experience as a clerk in a department store at McKinney. From that he transferred his enterprise to a retail grocery house, was in business eleven years as a retail grocer and then organized the Fox Wholesale Grocery Company, which, as already stated, was the first establishment of its kind in Collin county. Mr. Fox remained its president and general manager about six years, then bought out the rest of the stockholders and continued in business under the name of G. W. Fox, Wholesale Grocer. Ill health compelled him to retire from the grocery trade in 1911 and since then ho has given his attention to real estate and loans. In political matters Mr. Fox can be found in the regular ranks of the Democratic party, but has not sought any public office. He is none the less an active worker for local progress, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and is secretary and treasurer of the good roads organization of Collin county. His fraternal affiliations are with the Masonic Order and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and his church home is the Christian denomination. At McKinney in 1889 Mr. Fox married Miss Lula Lillan, who lost both her father and mother when she was a child and was brought up an orphan. Of the four children born to their marriage the two now living are: Grace, who married Edgar McKinney, who is secretary of the Home Relief Association at McKinney, and Miss Maude, aged thirteen, and now attending school. The business office of Mr. Fox is on Kentucky street, in the Masonic building, and his home on North College street. (A History of Texas and Texans, Volume 3, Francis White Johnson, 1914) The Fox home at 311 N. College was built in 1915 by George W. and Lula Fox. George Fox, the descendant of one of Collin County's pioneer families, was a local realtor and county official. It's asymmetrical prairie school style features a strong hipped roof line with deep eaves, boxed ornamental rafters, and a wraparound porch whose columns and eaves repeat the rhythm of the upper level.Historical marker placed on the home 1994.

Birth	31 Mar 1867	Collin County, TX
Marriage	1889	McKinney, Collin County, TX - Lula LILLIARD
Death	25 Oct 1924	McKinney, Collin County, TX
Burial		Pecan Grove Cemetery, McKinney, Collin County, TX

Spouse	Lula LILLIARD (1870 - 1919)
Child	Maude Sunshine FOX (1900 - 1987)