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 COWLEY

COX

ward Yadkin county, and in March, 1861, volun- teered in the service of his state. Soon thereafter he enlisted in the 1st X.C. cavalry, army of northern Virginia, and served through the war, holding successively the ranks of lieutenant, captain, major and lieutenant-colonel. He was severely wounded at Mine Run in November, 1863; and again at Chamberlain's Run, near Petersburg, March 31, 1865. He began the study of law in 1866 and in January, 1867, was licensed by the supreme court of North Carolina to practice in the county courts and in the supe- rior courts in January, 1868. He located in Wilkesboro, N.C., was reading clerk of the senate, 1873-74; solicitor of the 10th judicial district, 187-1-78; a member of the Democratic executive committee for eight years and a repre- sentative from the eighth North Carolina district in 1885-93. He died in Wilkesboro, N.C., Dec. 30, 1901.

COWLEY, Charles, historian, was born at Eastington, Gloucestershire, England, Jan. 9, 1832; son of Aaron and Hannah (Price) Cowley. His father, a manufacturer, settled in America and founded cai-pet factories at "Woburn and Lowell, Mass., at which latter place the boy received a common school edu- cation. After con- tinuing his studying under private in- structors he entered journalism, and in 1S52 became editor of lie Lowell Daily < "urier. He after- ward abandoned this work and in 1856 was adi.iitted to the bar, practising in Lowell and Boston. He en- tered the Union navy in 1864 and was pay- master in the Brooklyn navy yard and on the Lehigh. He was afterward appointed judge advocate on Admiral Dahlgren's staff, and be- came successively fleet judge, px'ovost judge, and revising officer of the naval com-ts of the South Atlantic blockading squadron. After the war lie resiuned his legal practice, meanwliile making historical research and writing his avo- cation. He became a member of the New Eng- land historic, genealogical society, of the Bristol and Gloucestershire archjEological society, and president of the Port Royal society. Norwich university, Vt., conferred upon liim the degree of LL.D. in 1885. His published writings include : A Hand-book of Business in Lowell, icith a History Vjf the City (1856) ; Memories of the Indians and

Pioneers of the Berjion of Lowell (1862) ; Histoi-y of Lowell (1868) ; Famous Divorces of All Ages (1878) j Historical Sketch of Middlesex County (1878) ; Leaves from a Lawyer's Life Afloat and Ashore (1879) ; Our Divorce Courts (1^79); Beminiscences of James C. Ayer and the Town of Ayer (1879) ; Memoir of Josiah Gardner Abbott (1892) ; Siege of Charleston (1899) ; and edited Dahlgren's Maritime Liternational Law (1877).

COWLEY, Edward, clergyman, was born in Eastington, England, Nov. 4, 1827 ; son of Aaron and Hannah (Price) Cowley. He was educated at the Lowell high school and received his theo- logical training at the Protestant Episcopal theological seminary of Virginia at Alexandria. He was ordained a deacon in 1857 and a priest in 1858. He was rector of Grace church at Lonsdale, R.I., 1858-60, and later had charge of the par- ishes at Bridgewater, Danvers and Attleboro, Mass., Portland, Maine, Rhinebeck, N.Y., Phila- delphia, Pa., and New York city. He was chaplain of the New York citj- charity and penal institutions, 1863-72, making his liome at the Charity hospital, Blackwell's Island. He insti- tuted the frequent and systematic visitation of various institutions by benevolent ladies and thus kept the needs of the unfortunate before the class able to give aid. His help was espe- cially extended to the waifs and other children,' wards of the city, and through the ministrations of the ladies their condition was greatly improved and the death rate materially lessened. He organized and secured the incorporation of The Sliepherd Fold and an endo^^^llent of §5000 i>er year from the legislature of the state of New York for its support. After a visit to England in 1872-73 he organized and obtained a charter, and appropriation per capita for The Children's Fold, after the plan of Bethlehem hospital, London, and these two institutions were at the time the only ones under the care of the Protestant Epis- copal church endowed hj the legislature of tlie state of New York. He was a student of Egypt- ology, Assyriology and kindred subjects, and received the honorary degree of D.D. in recogni- tion of his work in these directions. His published works include: God in Creation (1887); God En- throned in Bedcmption (1888); Jacob and Japheth, or Bible Growth and Beligion (1889) ; and The Writers of Genesis and Belated Topics (1890). He died in New York city, April 20, 1891.

COX, Henry Joseph, meteorologist, was born in "West Newton, Mass., April 5, 1863; son of Tliomas and Hannah (Perkins) Cox ; and grand- son of Martin and Mary Cox and of Henry and Martlia Perkins. His parents emigrated from Ireland to Massachusetts in 1850, liis grand- fathers having removed from England to Ireland about 1810. He was prepared for college at the