Charles Fox
Professor of Agriculture, the first one chosen for this university, he had already won for himself and his studies many friends, and the people were aroused to great hope for this new science. While holding this office for only the second year, he was snatched away by sudden and premature death. From his native Britain, where his worthy and well-born parents had educated the boy in the village of Westoe, and Doctor Arnold Hustius had instructed his youth in the town of Rugby, the young man betook himself to Michigan. Having been ordained a priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church, he dedicated to God a house built at his own expense on Grosse Ile. He, who, with most noteworthy character, great faith, and unusual humanity, had made his skill in literature and natural science equal to his extraordinary talent, is mourned by none more than by the University. He was born November 22, 1815. He died July 24, 1854.
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This being a translation of the original Latin text from the base of the monument
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