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 HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OP AMERICAN, BIOGRAPHY. 1901 has been president of that institution. is the author of Textbook on Materia Medioa and Therapeutics; Textbook of Gynecology; and Textbook of the Practice of Medicine. Cowpland, Caleb, lawyer, jurist. In 1750 he was commissioned an associate justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. Cox, Abraham. Siddou, physician, surgeon, was born in 1800 in New York. At the beginning of the civil war he became a surgeon in the army; and at the time of his death was surgeon-in-chief of the first division, twentieth corps, army of the Cumberland. Died July 29, 1864, Lookout Mountain, Tenn. Cox, Allen M., lawyer, public official, was born Sept. 30, 1844, near Madrid, St. Lawrence county, N.Y. For eight years he was mayor of Couneaut, Ohio ; has been prosecuting attorney, and for several years was United States commissioner. He has been a member of the school board for twenty-four years, and its president for six years. Cox, Argus, lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 26, 1856, in Van Buren county, Iowa. In 1887-88 he was prosecuting attorney of Wright comity. Mo.; and in 1892 was elected judge of the eighteenth circuit. Cox, Charles Finney, railroad officer, author, was born Jan. 16, 1846, in Richmond county, N.Y. He has been president, vicepresident, secretary and director of numerous railroads, bridge and tunnel companies. He is a, trustee of Oberlin college; president

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of the scientific alliance of New York; and a, member of several scientific societies here and abroad. He is the author of Protoplasm

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Life.

Cox, Christopher C, physician, lieutenantgovernor, ^was born Aug. 16, 1816, in Baltimore, Md. He was appointed commissioner of pensions in 1868; a member of the board of health in 1871, acting as president of the board for several years. He served as president of a medical society; as a surgeon in the army during the civil war; and was surgeon-general of the state of Maryland. Before the close of the civil war he was elected lieutenant-governor of Maryland. He died in Baltimore, Md. Cox, E. St. Julian, soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 21, 1833, in Switzerland. During the war he was commissioned first lieutenant of company E, second regiment Minnesota volunteer infantry; and did good service for his country as captain of company E, first regiment Minnesota rangers, cavalry, in charge of frontier posts. He has been the judge of Waukesha county, Wis.; United States commissioner of Minnesota; and judge of the ninth judicial district of Minnesota. Cox, Edward Travers, geologist, was born April 21, 1821, in Virginia. He is a geologist of New York City; and has made a number of important surveys. He is the author of Annual Reports of the Geological Survey of Indiana. 9

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Cox, Hannah, abolitionist, was bom in 1796 in Philadelphia, Pa. She joined the first movement in favor of emancipation, 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 ninety-first year, received fugitive slaves. She died April 15, 1876, Longwood Pa. Cox, Henry G., physician, was born about 1819, in Bermuda. On the organization of the New York medical college in 1850, he was appointed censor, and afterward to its professorship of theory and practice. He 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. He died May 29, 1866, in New York City. Cox, Henry Joseph, educator, meteorologist, was born April 5, 1863, in Newton, Mass. Since 1884 he has been in the United States weather service; and since 1899 professor of meteorology in charge of the north central forecast district of the United States weather bureau at Chicago, 111 Cox, Isaac Newton, congressman, was bom Aug. 1, 1846, in Fallsburgh, N.Y. He has been frequently sent as a delegate to democratic conventions, state and local. In 1886 he was appointed chairman of the commission to make an examination of the Northern pacific railroad. In 1891-93 he was a representative from New York to the fiftysecond congress as a democrat. Cox, Jacob Dolson, soldier, lawyer, congressman, governor, author, was born Oct. 27, 1828, of American parents, in Montreal, .

Canada. In 1861 he was appointed a brigadier-general of Ohio

and was promoted to the rank volunteers of



major-general. He state senator of

was a

the Ohio legislature in 1860-61; he was the

twenty-sixth governor of Ohio in 1866-68; and in 1869-70 he was secretary of the interior. In 1877-79 he was a representative from Ohio to the forty-fifth congress. He is the author of Atlanta; The March to the Sea; and The Second Battle of Bull Run as Connected with the Fitz-John Porter Case. He died Aug. 4, 1900, in Magnolia, Mass. Cox, James, painter, artist, was born in 1751 in England. 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 five thousand volumes, which he sold, during the latter part of his life, to the Library company of Philadelphia, for an annuity of four hundred dollars. Died in 1834 in Philadelphia, Pa.