seven children. Up to ninety-seven, Mrs. Cox was unremittingly industrious. Until near the time of her death her faculties, with the exception of im- paired hearing, were in good preservation : she walked without a cane, and read small print with- out glasses. After she had reached the age of 100 she was proud to recall the fact that, when five years old, she had knitted socks for soldiers.
COX, Hannah, abolitionist, b. in Longwood,
near Philadelphia, in 1796 ; d. there, 15 April, 1876.
She joined the first movement in favor of emanci-
pation, being a co-laborer with Benjamin Lundy,
Garrison, Lucretia Mott, and John G. Whittier.
For years she and her husband, who survived her
in his 91st year, received fugitive slaves. Their
golden wedding was celebrated in 1873, when poems
were sent by Whittier and Bayard Taylor.
COX, Henry G., physician, b. in Bermuda about 1819 ; d. in New York city, 29 May, 1866. He re-
ceived a thoi-ough English and classical education,
and, soon after attaining his majority, was elected
to the legislature of the Bermuda islands. At the
age of twenty-six he came to New York to pursue
the study of medicine, was graduated in 1849 at
the College of physicians and surgeons, and was
immediately appointed house physician at Bellevue
hospital, and subsequently to a place on the medi-
cal stafl: at Quarantine hospital, Staten Island. In
1860 he settled in private practice in the city, and
received also the appointment of physician to the
State hospital on Ward's island, an office that he
held for many years. On the organization of the
New York medical college in 1850, he was appoint-
ed censor, and afterward to its professorship of
theory and practice. Dr. Cox took an enthusiastic
interest in the organization of the Nursery and
child's hospital, incorporated in 1854, and to his
watchfulness in its earlier years is due much of the
usefulness of the institution. A few months be-
fore his death the commissioners of hospitals ap-
pointed him principal consulting physician.
COX, Henry Hamilton, author, b. in Ireland
about 1750; d.'there in 1822. His name was origi-
nally Henry Hamilton, and he is said to have
served in the British army in India. He assumed
the name of Cox on inheriting a landed estate
from his grandfather. Sir Michael Cox. The estate
was heavily encumbered, and he came to America
with a view of living in obscurity until it could be
cleared by the income arising from it. Pie settled
in York county. Pa., and subsequently in Ches-
ter county, assumed the garb and manners of a
Quaker, and was admitted into their society. At
times, however, his eccentric manner excited the
suspicion that his new life was not the result of
sincere conviction, and that something in his former
life remained concealed. His estate became disen-
cumbered in 1817, and he at once returned to Ire-
land. AlthoiTgh he bore certificates from the
Quaker society in Chester county to that of Dub-
lin, it is said that on his voyage home he doffed
his plain clothes and threw his broad-brimmed hat
overboard. He was the original of " The Strange
Friend," a story by Bayard Taylor, published in
the " Atlantic Monthly." Soon after he arrived in
Philadelphia he presented to the Library company
of that city several bound volumes of manuscript
correspondence between the military and civil de-
partments of the British government during the
reign of William and Mary. It was subsequently
discovered by William Hepworth Dixon that these
manuscripts filled a hiatus in a series of volumes
belonging to the British government, which had
been deposited in a public library in Dublin, and,
upon application, the Library company restored
them to their proper place. It was supposed that
they had come into the possession of Mr. Cox
through some of his ancestors, who had held public
office. In America Mr. Cox was known as Henry
Cox. He published " The Pennsylvania Georgics."
COX, Jacob Dolson, statesman, b. in Montreal,
Canada, 27 Oct., 1828. His parents were natives
of the United States, but at the time of his birth
were temporarily sojourning in Canada. He spent
his boyhood in New York, removed with his parents
to Ohio in 1846, and was graduated at Oberlin
in 1851. After leaving college he studied law,
was admitted to the bar in 1853, and settled in
Warren, Ohio. In 1859-'61 he was a member of
the state senate, having been elected by the republicans.
At the beginning of the civil war he held
a state commission as brigadier-general of militia,
and took an active part in raising troops. He
entered the national army on 23 April, 1861, and
three weeks later received the commission of
brigadier-general and was assigned to the command
of the “Brigade of the Kanawha” in western Virginia.
On 29 July he drove out the Confederates
under Gen. Wise, taking and repairing Gauley and
other bridges, which had been partially destroyed.
Gen. Cox remained in command of this department,
with the exception of a short interval, until
August, 1862, when he was assigned to the Army
of Virginia under Gen. Pope. He served in the
9th corps at the Battle of South Mountain, 14
Sept., 1862, assuming command when Gen Reno
fell, and also at Antietam, three days later. For
his services in this campaign he was commissioned
major-general. On April 16, 1863, Gen. Cox was
put in command of the district of Ohio, and also
of a division of the 23rd army corps. He served in
the Atlanta campaign, and under Gen. Thomas in
the campaigns of Franklin and Nashville. On 14
March, 1865, he fought the battle of Kingston, N.C.,
and then united his force with Gen.
Sherman's
army. At the close of the war he resigned his
command, and entered into the practice of law in
Cincinnati. He was governor of Ohio in 1866-'67,
declined the office of commissioner of internal
revenue tendered him by President Johnson in
1868, and was secretary of the interior in President
Grant's
first cabinet from March, 1869, till December,
1870, when, on account of disagreement with
certain measures of the administration, he resigned.
Returning to Cincinnati, he resumed his
legal practice. In October, 1873, he was elected
president of the Wabash railroad, and removed to
Toledo to take charge of his new work. In 1876
the republicans elected him representative to
congress, where he served from 15 Oct., 1877, till 3
March, 1879. The degree of LL.D. has been conferred
upon him by the University of North Carolina,
and also by Davison university, Ohio. He
has published “Atlanta” and “The March to the
Sea; Franklin and Nashville” (New York, 1882).
COX, James, artist, b. in England in 1751; d.
in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1834. For many years he
was the fashionable drawing-master in
Philadelphia and did much to advance the fine arts. He
made a remarkable collection of works on the fine
arts, numbering over 5,000 volumes, which he sold,
during the latter part of his life, to the Library
company of Philadelphia, for an annuity of $400.
COX, James, soldier, b. in Monmouth, N. J., 14 June, 1753; d. there, 12 Sept., 1810. His early education was received in the public schools. At the age of twenty-four he commanded a company of militia, and afterward served at the battles of Germantown and Monmouth, attaining to the rank of brigadier-general. He was for many years a
