Samuel Mickle Fox (1800-1849)
of 5 DePau Row, New York City; Merchant, of Bolton, Fox & Livingston
He entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1816 and received a degree in 1818 before graduating in medicine in 1822. For a few years, he practiced in Philadelphia, but relinquished that career in 1828 when he went succeeded to his father-in-law's business in New York as a senior partner in the firm of Bolton, Fox & Livingston, owners of the "Union Line" of packet steamships running between Le Havre and New York. His partners were Curtis Bolton (1783-1851) and his wife's brother-in-law, Mortimer Livingston, and by 1845 his own personal fortune was estimated at $300,000. After Bolton retired the firm continued as Fox & Livingston until Fox's premature death in 1849. In 1826, he married Eliza, daughter of Francis de Pau (a major player in the slave trade even after it was banned) and a granddaughter of the famous French Admiral, the Comte de Grasse. They were parents of eight children (listed).
