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Dixon Ryan Fox

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Dixon Ryan Fox 1887-1945, American historian and educator, b. Potsdam, N.Y. He taught at Columbia from 1912 to 1934, becoming full professor in 1927. From 1934 until his death he was president of Union College and chancellor of Union Univ. His writings include The Decline of Aristocracy in the Politics of New York (1919, repr. 1971); a biography of the historian Herbert L. Osgood, his father-in-law (1924); and Yankees and Yorkers (1940). Fox was a leader of research in social history and with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., was editor of the excellent "A History of American Life" series.... Read more
Arthur M(eier), and Schlesinger, Arthur M(eier), Jr. Schlesinger
...and the American Revolution, 1763–1776 (1917) and Rise of the City, 1878–1898 (1933), and he coedited (with Dixon Ryan Fox) the series A History of American Life (1928–43). His son taught at Harvard (1946–61) and the City University... Read more
Herbert Levi Osgood
...1904-7) and The American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century (4 vol., 1924), which deal mainly with the origin and development of English-American political institutions. Bibliography: See biography by his son-in-law, Dixon Ryan Fox (1924, repr. 1973). Read more

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