. History of Milwaukee, city and county . to a position of leadership in connection with thepractice of medicine and surgery in this state. He died in April, 1897, at the age offifty-two years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Narcissa McDill, was bornin Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Alexander S. McDill, former member of con-gress from Wisconsin. He was also superintendent of the institution for the insaneat Madison both before and after his term in congress. As a physician he specializedin nervous diseases and was one of the first alienists in this country. His daughter,Mrs. Fox
. History of Milwaukee, city and county . to a position of leadership in connection with thepractice of medicine and surgery in this state. He died in April, 1897, at the age offifty-two years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Narcissa McDill, was bornin Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Alexander S. McDill, former member of con-gress from Wisconsin. He was also superintendent of the institution for the insaneat Madison both before and after his term in congress. As a physician he specializedin nervous diseases and was one of the first alienists in this country. His daughter,Mrs. Fox, passed away November 12, 1920. John McDill Fox was a pupil in the public schools of Milwaukee to the age of nineyears, when he went to Notre Dame University, entering the preparatory school, andwhen fourteen years of age became a university student there. He was graduated in1909 with the Bachelor of Arts degree and afterward taught in St. Edwards Collegein Austin, Texas, for a year or more. Entering the Harvard Law School, he was there. JOHN McDILL FOX HISTORY OF :\[ILWArKEE 183 graduated in 1914 but prior to his graduation was admitted upon examination to theMassachusetts Ijar. He belonged to the John Marshall Law Club at Harvard and hewas one of the organizers and the secretary of the Wisconsin Club at Harvard Uni-versity. In the fall of 1914 Mr. Fox entered the office of Whipple. Sears & Ogden in Bostonand there remained for a year. He left that firm to engage in admiralty practice alonein Bost(»n and in 1916 he returned to Milwaukee, after which he was admitted topractice at the Wisconsin bar in the month of July. Here he took up the active workof the profession and has since specialized in admiralty law. In the spring of 1919he was made special lecturer on maritime law at the Marquette University, being thefirst instructor to give a full course of maritime law in \\isconsin. In the fall of 1919he was made a full professor of law in Marquette. In June. 1914, Mr. Fcx was
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