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Lois Marie Fox cookbook
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Lois Marie Fox Metzler Arthur (born, Lois Marie Chandler) was the daughter of Earl Chandler and Mabel Pearl Hill Chandler in Topeka, Kansas on December 26, 1910. Although she does not appear to have married anyone named Fox, she was using Fox as her last name by 1940. In the 1940 United States census for Topeka City, she is listed under the name "Lois Marie Fox" as the daughter of the head of the household, Earl Chandler, and as the mother of "Earl Chandler", also a member of the household. Also in the 1940 census, Fox is listed as being married, though it does not specify to whom, and seeking work as a stenographer.
Earl Chandler Metzler (1930-1951) was Fox's son from her first marriage to Haskell B. Metzler (1908-1958). Metzler does not appear to have been part of the Chandler/Fox household during the 1940 census.
On July 28, 1973, Fox married David Gragg Arthur (1909-1988).
Fox was a foster parent for the Kansas Children's Service League in the 1940s and a dormitory house mother at Washburn University (formerly Washburn College from 1868 to 1941) in the 1960s.
She died in Kansas on September 5, 2011.
Washburn University, where Fox worked and appears to have studied, is a public university in Topeka, Kansas.
Sources:
"David Gragg Arthur (1909-1988)." Find a Grave, 2012, www.findagrave.com/memorial/89366793/david_gragg_arthur.
"Lois Arthur Obituary (2011) - Topeka, KS - Topeka Capital-Journal." Legacy.Com, Legacy, 7 Sept. 2011, www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/cjonline/name/lois-arthur-obituary?id=22246540.
"Lois Maine Chandler Metzler, Arthur (1910-2011)." Find a Grave, 2011, www.findagrave.com/memorial/76128084/lois-maine-metzler_arthur.
This volume contains 74 culinary recipes compiled by Lois Marie Fox in Topeka, Kansas around the 1930s and 1940s. At this time, Fox lived at 1411 Fillmore Street, Topeka, KS and attended Washburn College.
Several of the recipes in this volume dated between 1898 and 1928 appear to be later copies. Many of the recipes in this volume are attributed to women presumably known to Fox, including Florence Thatcher, Laura Whipple, Nellie Benedict, Aunt Nellie Hill, Mollie Thatcher, Louise Peterson, and Mary Ware.
Examples of recipes include ham loaf (p. 1), tomato jelly salad (p. 8), salmon croquets (p. 18), pork sausage pudding (p. 21), high altitude gingerbread (p. 28), sour cream cake (p. 33), Japanese plum pudding (p. 36), Canada war cake (p. 43), Etta's pie crust – first prize (p. 50), pumpkin pie (p. 54), mango relish (p. 110), sea foam (p. 113), and divinity fudge (p. 114).
Gift of Nick Malgieri.
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- University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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- Kelin Baldridge Smallwood
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- 2024 August 28
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