Humptydumpty

George L. Fox

By AndreaBecker

  • Birth

    Birth
    George Washington Lafayette Fox was born to George Howe Fox and Emily Watt Fox of Cambridge, Mass.

  • First Bowery Theatre opens

    First Bowery Theatre opens
    Opens with Holcroft's "The Road to Ruin"
    "Bowery Theatre"  The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre.

  • First Bowery Theatre burns down

    First Bowery Theatre burns down
    "Bowery Theatre"  The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre

  • Second Bowery Theatre opened

    Second Bowery Theatre opened
    "Bowery Theatre"  The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre

  • Stage Debut

    Stage Debut
    Child in "The Hunter of the Alps" @ benefit for Charles Kean in the Tremont Theatre, Boston
    NYT 10/25/77
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    Family Company

    Traveled w/his uncle (George W. Wyatt), mother, brothers (James and Charles Kemble), sister (Caroline), and several others. Toured "rural districts of New-England"
    NYT 10/25/77

  • Second Bowery Theatre burns down

    Second Bowery Theatre burns down
    "Bowery Theatre"  The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre

  • Third Bowery Theatre is built/burned down?

    Third Bowery Theatre is built/burned down?
    "Bowery Theatre"  The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre

  • Fourth Bowery Theatre built/burned

    Fourth Bowery Theatre built/burned
    "Bowery Theatre"  The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre

  • Moved to NY

    Moved to NY
    Started working as a comediat in the old National Theatre in Chatham-Square
    NYT 10/25/77

  • Bowery Theatre reopends under George L. Fox and James W. Lingard

    Bowery Theatre reopends under George L. Fox and James W. Lingard
    "Bowery Theatre"  The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre

  • The New Bowery opens

    The New Bowery opens
    Under Fox and Lingard. "It had a short and undistinguished career, enlivened only by visits from guest stars and the inevitable Uncle Tom's Cabin."
    "Bowery Theatre"  The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre

  • Enlists as Lieutenant in the Eighth New York Infantry

    Enlists as Lieutenant in the Eighth New York Infantry
  • Period: to

    American Civil War

  • Battle of Bull Run

    Battle of Bull Run
    Rose to rank of Major and saw action

  • Mustered out

    Mustered out

  • New Bowery burns down

    New Bowery burns down
    "Bowery Theatre"  The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre.
  • Period: to

    Stage Manager of the Olympic Theatre

    NYT 10/25/77

  • Death of 1st wife

    Death of 1st wife
    NYT 10/25/77

  • Married 2nd wife

    Married 2nd wife
    3 weeks after the 1st one died
    NYT 10/25/77

  • Clown in "Humpty Dumpty"

    Clown in "Humpty Dumpty"
    "one of the most profitable pieces of the decade"
    NYT 10/25/77
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    High point of his career

    $20,000 a year and steadily increasing
    NYT 10/25/77

  • Manager at the Globe Theatre

    Manager at the Globe Theatre
    Bad idea.
    Health began to fail.
    NYT 10/25/77

  • Accident

    Accident
    NYT 11/15/75
  • Period: to

    McLain Asylum in Cambridge, Mass

    NYT 10/25/77

  • Physicians care in Brooklyn

    Physicians care in Brooklyn
    NYT 10/25/77

  • Return to Cambridge

    Return to Cambridge
    "his friends in this City (Brooklyn) abandoned him, and he did not communicate with them for months"
    NYT 10/25/77

  • 2nd Paralysis

    2nd Paralysis
    NYT 10/25/77

  • Relapse

    Relapse
    NYT 10/25/77

  • Death

    Death
    Died after a series of strokes. Age: 52 years, 3 months, 21 days
    NYT 10/25/77