Chauncey J. Fox

Chauncey Johnston Fox (August 21, 1797 in Tolland County, Connecticut – February 11, 1883) was an American politician from New York.

They did not find any way to make a living and decided to go in a little boat to Cincinnati, but after two days on the Allegheny River met a settler in the woods, and stayed in his employ.

Finding the work too hard, he abandoned lumbering, studied law with John A. Bryan instead, was admitted to the bar in 1826, and practiced in Ellicottville.

In the Senate he advocated the construction of the Genesee Valley Canal which was authorized by the Legislature in 1836.

He retired from the bar in 1848, and pursued agricultural interests on a farm near Ellicottville.