Emma Augusta Fox

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Emma Augusta Fox (Stowell)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Nineveh, New York, United States
Death: February 26, 1945 (97)
Highland Park, MI, United States (Heart Failure)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Allen Goff Stowell and Caroline Locke Stowell
Wife of Charles Edgar Fox
Mother of Maurice Winslow Fox and Howard Stowell Fox

Occupation: Parliamentarian
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About Emma Augusta Fox

Fox, Emma A. Parliamentary Usage for Women's Clubs. New York: Baker & Taylor, 1902. (last edition in 1943). (several editions)

Fox, Emma A. PARLIAMENTARY USAGE Garden City, NY : Doubleday, Page, 1912

A manual of parliamentary law and practice, designed for the use of societies literary, social, musical, philanthropic and fraternal.

"The Detroit Unit of the National Association of Parliamentarians, chartered in 1963, was initially called the Emma Fox Unit. It was named after a Detroit resident who was the author of a widely used parliamentary authority."

A primary school in Detroit is named after her.

Emma Augusta Stowell Fox papers, 1894-1945. (Detroit author and teacher of parliamentary practice for women's organizations. Letters exchanged between Mrs. Fox and various women and women's organizations (particularly state federations of women's clubs) concerning club activities; also letter, 1903, from Jane Addams; and photographs).

Collection at the Bentley Historical Library. (University of Michigan)

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Emma Augusta Fox's Timeline

1847
March 19, 1847
Nineveh, New York, United States
1883
March 2, 1883
Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States
1889
October 2, 1889
Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States
1945
February 26, 1945
Age 97
Highland Park, MI, United States
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