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 Richard A. Fox (1861 - 1950)
-Richard Fox was born in Illinois. He worked as a boilermaker in Colorado for a few years and took building contracts. He saved a reported $1000,000, lost it in a bank failure during the 1890s depression, and then stampeded to the Yukon in 1898.((“Richard A. Fox is visiting Vancouver.” //The Dawson News// (Dawson), 2 April 1925.))
+Richard A. Fox may have been William Henry Mannes, born in Ipwich, United Kingdom, who immigrated to the United States and went through divorce proceedings in Colorado in 1897.((Conversation with Kathy Jones Gates, 19 April 2025.))
+The re-invented Richard Fox worked as a boilermaker in Colorado for a few years and took building contracts. He saved a reported $1000,000, lost it in a bank failure during the 1890s depression, and then stampeded to the Yukon in 1898.((“Richard A. Fox is visiting Vancouver.” //The Dawson News// (Dawson), 2 April 1925.))
 Fox was working in construction in Dawson in 1903.((“A Hobbs Surprise.” //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 15 December 1903.)) He soon turned to creating well-crafted in-laid boxes and objects made of bone and mammoth ivory. In July 1915, he recovered a mammoth tusk and brought some mammoth meat to Dawson in a gunnysack.((“Mammoth found by Dawson prospector.” //Alaska Daily Empire// (Juneau), 20 July 1915.)) In 1921, Fox advertised his ivory shop at 317 First Avenue in a local newspaper saying his specialty was in mammoth ivory beads, lodge gavels, paper knives, paper weights, cribbage boards, tongs and canes.((“Fancy Ivory Work.” //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 12 December 1921./)) In 1922 he added Mayo silver souvenirs to his advertisement.((//Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 27 November 1922.))