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He graduated with the degrees of land, lud. A.B. and A.M. from the university of Indiana. Since 1905 he has been in the department of zoology and botany in the Indiana state normal school at Terre Haute. He has made valuable researches on the fishes of Minnesota. Cox, Walter Smith, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 25, 1826, in Georgetown, D.C. He practiced law in Washington until 1879 ; and since 1874 has been professor law school of Columbian university. In 1879 he was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. He died June 25, 1902, in Washington, D.C. Cox, William E., lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 6, 1865, in Dubois county, Ind. He graduated from the university of Lebanon, Tenn.; and from the law department of the university of Michigan at Ann Arbor. In 1889 he began the practice of law. In 1893-98 he was prosecuting attorney of his judicial district. In 1907 he was a representative from Indiana to the sixtieth and si-xty-first congresses as a democrat. Cox, William H., business man, banker, statesman, was born Oct. 22, 1856, in Maysville, Ky. He received a, thorough education in the public and private schools of his native state.

For many

years he was connected with the dry goods business and subsequently he engaged in the banking business. For eleven years he was a member of the

city council of Ky. ; for

ville,

Maysseven

was president

years

and for four years served as mayor of that city. Since 1900 he has been a member of the Kentucky state senate. In 1907 he was elected lieutenantgovernor of Kentucky.

WiUiam Ruf&n, soldier, planter, legiscongressman, was born March 11, 1832, Scotland Neck, N.C. He received his education at the Franklin college, Tennessee and

Cox, lator, in



Lebanon law the school. During civil war he became a at

the

brigadier - general in the confederate service.

He was

solicitor

the

sixth judicial circuit court; and he served as judge of the of

fourth judicial district court of North Carolina. In 1881-87 he was a representative to the forty-seventh, forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses; and served as secretary of the United States senate. He has been a successful planter and is

now

largely engaged in agriculture.

Cox, William

Van Zandt, banker,

author,

was born June 12, 1852, near Zanesville, Ohio; and is a son of Colonel Thomas J. Cox of the United States volunteer army, and a nephew of the late Samuel S. Cox, the eminent statesman. In 1874 he graduated from the Ohio wesleyan university with the degree of A.M.; and in 1877 was admitted to the bar. In 1879-1902 he was on the administrative staff of the United States national museum. He is now president of the Second national bank of Washington, D.C; vicepresident of the Washington market company; and a director in various financial institutions. In 1887 he also represented the Smithsonian institute at the Minneapolis exposition; and in 1888 also represented it at the Northwest territorial centennial at Marietta, Ohio. In 1893 he was financial officer of the Smithsonian institution and the United States national museum at the World's Columbian and Atlanta expositions; and United States executive officer at the Nashville, Omaha, Buffalo and St. Louis expositions. He is vice-president of the board of education of Washington, D.C. He is the author of Life of Samuel S. Cox; and various Reports and Monographs. Cox, William Williamson, business man, was born April 12, 1851, in Princess Anne county, Va. He is identified with the business and public affairs of Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Coxe, Alfred Conkling, lawyer, jurist, was born in Auburn, N.Y. In 1882-1900 he was United States district judge for the northern district of New York; his grandfather, Hon. Alfred Conkling, having formerly held the

same

position.

Coxe, Arthur Cleveland, clergyman, bishop, author, poet, was born May 10, 1818, in Mendham, N.J. He was the second protestant episcopal bishop of western New York. He was the author of Christian Ballads;

Halloween; Athanasius and Other Poems; Advent, a Mystery; Saul, a Mystery; Athwold, a Romaunt; St. Jonathan, the Lay of a Scald; and Letters to Monsignore SatoUi. His other works comprise Impressions of England; Thoughts on the Services; ApoUos, or the Way of God; The Criterion, a, Means of Distinguishing Truth from Error; Institutes of Christian History; Signs of the Times; and The Penitential. He died July 30, 1896, in Clifton Springs, N.Y. Coxe, Daniel, lawyer, jurist, author, was in 1674 in London, England. Daniel came to this country in 1703, and at various times was a member of the royal council, speaker of the assembly, and associate justice of the supreme court of New Jersey, which post he held from 1734 until his death. He was an able lawyer and zealous churchman. Several of his letters are published in the History of the Church in Burlington; and he was the author of A Description of the English Province of Carolina, by the Spaniards called Florida, and by the French La Louisiane. He died April 25, 1789, in Trenton, N.J.

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