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Cox, James, soldier, congressman, was born 14, 1753, in Montgomery county, N.J. He was a member of the state legislature, and speaker of the assembly. He commanded a company of militia in the revolution; and was subsequently a brigadier-general of militia. In 1809-10 he was a representative from New Jersey to the eleventh congress. He died Sept. 13, 1810, in Monmouth county,

June

N.J.

Cox, James Farley, marine underwriter, born Feb. 1, 1830,' in Locust Valley, L.I. He originated, established and carried to success the system of individual underwriting in America; and with Douglas Robinson, at that time his partner, created the United States Lloyds. Cox, James M., journalist, publisher, congressman, was born March 31, 1870, in Jacksonburg, Butler county, Ohio. He attended the country schools of his native state; and graduated from the high school of his native town. In his early youth he was a newsboy learned the printer's trade; and became a successful Journalist. For many years he Avas a newspaper reporter; became a wellknown newspaper publisher of Dayton, Ohio; and has filled numerous positions of trust and honor in his city, county and state. In 1909-11 he was a representative from Ohio to the sixty-first congress as a democrat; and served on several important committees. wa.s



Cox,

James Monroe, educator, clergyman, was born Feb. 26, 1860, in

college president,

Fredonia, Ala. Since 1896 he has been president of the Philander Smith college at Little Rock, Ark. He is now a member of the University senate; and is secretary of the board of directors of the Capital city savings bank. Cox, John, educator, scientist, was born Nov. 20, 1851, in London, England. Since 1890 he has been Macdonald professor of physics at McGill university of Montreal. He has made valuable researches on the properties

Rontgen rays.

Cox, John Cooke, soldier, was bom in Pennsylvania. In 1861 he became captain and commissary of subsistence in the civil war; and in 1863 was brevetted brigadiergeneral of volunteers. Died March 30, 1873. Cox, John I., governor. In 1905-07 he was governor of Tennessee. Cox, John Leatherman, soldier, was born Iowa. In 1878 he graduated from the United States military academy; and became second lieutenant in the twentieth infantry. Cox, Joseph D., lawyer, jurist, was bom Aug. 4, 1833, in Chambersburg, Pa. He was in

prosecuting attorney of his county at Cincinnati; judge of the court of common pleas for fifteen years; and judge of the first circuit court for fourteen years. He died in 1900 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Cox, Kenyon, painter, was bom Oct. 37, 1856, in Warren, Ohio. He was an associate in the national academy of design. He has painted portraits and landscapes, but prefers the decorative treatment of the human figure. His principal works in public places are: Venice, a decorative painting in Walker art building, B'owdoin college of Brunswick, Maine; The Arts and The Sciences, two decorations in the Library of congress in Washington, D.C. ; The Reign of Law; and other works of art. Cox, Leander M., soldier, congressman, was born in Virginia. In 1853-57 he was a representative from Kentucky to the thirtythird and thirty-fourth congresses. He served as a captain in the Mexican war; was grand master of the order of free masons in 1843; and a presidential elector in 1853. He died in

Kentucky. Cox, Lemuel, master mechanic, inventor, was born in 1736 in Boston, Mass. He was the inventor of a machine for cutting cardwire; the first projector of a powder-mill in Massachusetts; and the first to suggest employing the prisoners on Castle island to make nails. He died on Feb. 18, 1806, in Charlestown, Mass. Cox, Louise

Howland King,

was born June

painter, artist,

San Francisco, Cal. She has painted Psyche; Pomona; Leonard; The Rose; and other pictures. Cox, Mrs. Mary McHenry, founder, philanthropist, was born Sept. 3, 1827, in Phila23, 1865, in

delphia, Pa. Since its foundation in 1865 she has been first directress of the Lincoln institution of Philadelphia, Pa., organized as a soldiers' orphans home; from which also another institution sprang, the Educational home, of which she is and always has been first directress. She has personally collected

about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for these institutions. In 1883 the Lin-

was changed into an Indian These institutions have cared for about twelve hundred white children and nearly one thousand Indian children. coln institution school.

Cox, Melville Beveridge, missionary, was 9, 1799, in Hallowell, Maine. He organized the methodist episcopal church in Africa under the supervision and control of the general conference of that denomination in America. He was the author of Sketches of Western Africa, which was appended to a memoir of his life. He died July 21, 1833,

born Nov.

in Africa.

Cox, Millard F.,

lawyer, jurist, author, 1856, near Noblesville, Ind. In 1890-94 he was a judge of the criminal court of Indianapolis, Ind. He is the author of The Legionaries, a Storv of the Great Raid.

was born Feb.

35,