This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GKX.2ACIB/7052 Message Board Post: EVENING POST ANNUAL, 1882 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES [With Portraits] of the State Officers, Representatives in Congress, Governor’s Staff, and Senators and Members of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut. Published Annually. Hartford, Conn.: Evening Post Association. 1882. Page 30 COL. SIMEON J. FOX: Assistant Adjutant-General, was originally appointed May 10, 1869, under the administration of Governor Jewell, and has since remained in the Adjutant-General’s office. He is an efficient organizer, and no inconsiderable share of the progress attained by the National Guard in the State during the past twelve years has been due to his influence. Colonel Fox was a member of the New Haven Grays, and also held the position of Quartermaster in the Second Regiment previous to his appointment. During the war he served in the Twenty-seventh Connecticut Infantry.