Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . REV. HENRY J. FOX, D. D. J. FOX. number of the learned and eloquent pastors ofSands-street church are distinctively recognized asself-made men. Among these the Rev HenryJohn Fox, D. D. should be prominently named. He was born—the second of a family of nine children—in the parish of Sculcoates, Kingston-upon-Hull, England,May 13, 1821. His parents, Thomas (Clarke) Fox,were devoted members of the Wesleyan Connection. Theformer
Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . REV. HENRY J. FOX, D. D. J. FOX. number of the learned and eloquent pastors ofSands-street church are distinctively recognized asself-made men. Among these the Rev HenryJohn Fox, D. D. should be prominently named. He was born—the second of a family of nine children—in the parish of Sculcoates, Kingston-upon-Hull, England,May 13, 1821. His parents, Thomas (Clarke) Fox,were devoted members of the Wesleyan Connection. Theformer lived to be ninety-one years of age. He is buried inColumbia, S. C, where he died in 1877. The latter died andwas buried in Ashland, Greene Co., N. Y., in December,1858. Henry J. Fox, when a lad, attended a private academy inhis native town, conducted by Thomas Ager, Esq. He waspowerfully awakened under the preaching of Rev. RobertAtkin, a distinguished minister of the Established Church,but on entering upon a Christian life, he chose to connecthimself with a small sect of Methodists, of which Dr. Warrenwas the most prominent founder. His
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