Herbert H.H. Fox, born March 11, 1871 in Montclair, New Jersey, was the son of Ann Wood and James Fox. His parents immigrated from England to the east coast of the United States in the 1860s. His father was a master wood worker, and his mother died when he was three years old. James Fox remarried several years later, but this marriage did not last, and the father and son moved to California in 1886 to work on a ranch in Carmel Valley. They returned to the east coast a short time later and worked in the steel mills and potteries in New Jersey. During the late 1880s Herbert Fox attended the Newark Evening Technical School where he studied technical drawing. His pursuit of an engineering career, however, was abandoned for the study of theology at Hobart College in 1893. After graduation, he attended the General Seminary in New York, and was ordained by the Episcopal church in 1900. Fox took charge of several parishes in New York, and later in Michigan, before his appointment as the Coadjutor-Bishop for Montana in 1921. He retained that position until 1939, when he was appointed Bishop Suffragan for Montana. He married Alma Wather in the late 1890s. They had two children: Mary, born June 24, 1907, and Henry, born December 13, 1911. Herbert H.H. Fox died November 24, 1943.