This biography of Carol G. Fox was sourced from the Harvard Plate Stacks website on January 14, 2024. It was written by Elizabeth Coquillette and Meta Partenheimer, Curatorial Assistants at the Harvard Plate Stacks, in 2022. Please note that this information may have been updated since it was added to our database; for the most current information, check their website at https://platestacks.cfa.harvard.edu.
Born: 24 December 1903, United States
Died: 26 April 1975
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Carol Kennedy
Carol Gertrude Fox (1903-1975) worked at the Harvard College Observatory starting in 1927.1 The date she left the HCO is unknown, but it was likely around the time of her marriage in 1928.
Fox was born on December 24, 1903 in Boston, Massachusetts to Benjamin Fox and Carol Connor Fox, both of whom were born in England.2 In 1928, she married architect Eugene F. Kennedy Jr. and changed her name to Carol Kennedy.3 Her husband worked at the ecclesiastical architecture firm Maginnis, Walsh, and Kennedy, whose designs included the campus of Emmanuel College in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood and the chapel at Logan International Airport.4 The couple had four children–Peter, who became a commander in the US Navy, Michael, Roselyn, and Maura–and eleven grandchildren.5 Fox died in Boston on April 26, 1975.6
Works cited
1-Solon I. Bailey, The History and Work of Harvard Observatory, 1839 to 1927; an outline of the origin, development, and researches of the Astronomical observatory of Harvard College together with brief biographies of its leading members (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1931), 279.
2- “Massachusetts, U.S., Birth Records, 1840-1915,” Ancestry.com.
3- “Eugene Francis Kennedy Jr. (1904-1986),” Find a Grave, accessed June 15, 2022.
4- Ibid.
5- “Obituary 12,” Boston Globe, Apr 28, 1975.
6-Ibid.