Fox, Austen G. (1849-?)

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Irving Fisher to American Association for the Advancement of Science, April 22, 1908

Announcement, Association pour la Sauvegarde du Droit es Gens, 1915

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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1849-09-07

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New York

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Austin Fox was a lawyer and a member of the Committee of One Hundred of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on National Health. He was a law student at Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1871, and he was a member of the school's Pow Wow law club. He won his first case around this time, which was Buffles v. the State, on whether a jury could judge law alongside fact. Fox was also a member of various committees of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Fox married Alice Fox in 1879. They had two children together: Austin and Alice.