Rachel Armland and Zvi Yochenun Schumaker (also known as Zvi Hersh) came from Prushnitz, Poland.   They were married in 1888 by a pre-arranged agreement.  Zvi Yochenun came to America without his  bride.  When he came to Ellis Island, he changed his name to Fuchs because he did not want to be  known as a shoemaker.  Zvi Yochenun worked for awhile, saved money and sent for Rachel.  They had  11 children, all born in New York.

Zvi Yochenun worked many long hours as a presser in the garment industry and earned $5 a week.   Then he became a coal distributor and a diamond salesman.  When Zvi Yochenun applied for United  States citizenship, the judge asked him about his family.  After hearing Zvi recite all his son's  names, the judge granted the citizenship by saying, "You can have the citizenship because you have  your own army."

The family lived in a four-room apartment on the lower East Side of Manhattan.  To supplement  their income, one room was rented to a boarder.  It was an ordinary occurrence for Rachel to find  room for another person in her home.  Every time Zvi went apartment hunting for his family, each  landlord would ask how many children he had.  Zvi responded, "You're not feeding them." and would  continue to look until he found a landlord who did not ask the question.

When the youngest child, Al, was 13 years old, the Fox family relocated to East New York.  Being a  close-knit family, there were always regular visits to East New York.  To insure the continuance  of family intimacy, Rachel formed the Fox Family Circle in 1943 after the death of Harris J. Fox.

It is our hope that with this website and Family tree the Fox Family descendants can learn about their roots and become bound to the generations before and after them and rekindle the intimacy  that is the legacy of Harris J. and Rachel Fox.