Guide to the Louis Rodman Fox Papers
Open for research.
Louis Rodman Fox was born in Doylestown, PA. After practicing law for a time, he began to study for the ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary, graduating in 1862. After working for two years as a missionary and pastor in New Jersey, Fox accepted a call to the North Church of Washington, DC. He left this church in 1872 to become assistant pastor to Henry A. Boardman at the 10th Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. In 1876 he returned to New Jersey as a supply pastor. In 1881 he traveled to Detroit to take charge of the Union Church. Due to ill health, he retired to Philadelphia in 1891.
Fox's papers consist of one letter, written to Charles Morris, in 1871, and a journal which he kept from 1834-1889. It contains records of sermons, lectures and funerals preached and attended and of marriages performed.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared: December 1992
Stephanie Muntone, Processing Archivist
| Box | Folder | Description | |
| 1 | 1 | Finding Aid to Record Group 338 | |
| 1 | 2 | Record Book, 1834-89 | |
| 1 | 3 | Letter, 1871 |