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- Simeon Moses Fox was born on August 28, 1841 in Lansingville, New York. He moved with his family in 1853 to the Kansas territory (Highland, Kansas) where his father, a Methodist minister, worked in the misson field.
- Fox was educated in Lansingville and Elmira, New York. He attend Genesee College in New York, but when his mother died, he return to Kansas and never returned to college. He enlisted in September of 1861 in Co. C, First Kansas Calvary, and later changed to the Seventh Calvary. He was the regimental adjutant with the rank of lieutenant when he was discharged in September of 1865.
- Early in June 1866, while living in Leavenworth, he made friends with a young Boston man named Howard Kimball who was a salesman in Drake's Bookstore in Leavenworth. Howard spoke of Manhattan, Kansas, west of the Kaw Valley, on route of the Pacific railroad under construction, and the site of Kansas State Agricultural College (later renamed Kansas State University), as a promising location for a bookstore. The two traveled by rail to Topeka and the next day covered the remaining 50 miles by overland stage.
- When they arrived in Manhattan they found a need for a college bookstore and established a successful store which was eventually purchased by Guy Varney.
- Fox died on March 6, 1938 and is buried in Sunset Park Cemetary (block 1, lot 150) in Manhattan, Kansas.
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