Catherine Fox (1836–1872)
Catherine Jencken (1872–1892)

American medium. From 1848, rapping noises occurred in the presence of Fox and her older sister, Margaret, at the family home. Went to New York with her mother and sisters, with Eliab Capron as manager, in 1850. Over the next few years she and her sisters held public and private sittings throughout the eastern United States. Travelled to England in 1871. Married the spiritualist barrister Henry Diedrich Jencken (baptised as Heinrich) (1823–81) in 1872. Returned to the US in 1885, four years after her husband’s death.