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and Monairhs (1888): Qiicfr People tn'th Pmrs and (.7'nr.s (lt(y8) ; Quif-r r,<:,,U' vHh Winijs au<} Stiuijx (1888); The liroxrnie!^ (3 bcxiks, 1887-90); llw Broxrnies at Home (1893) ; The Brnicuies Around the World (1894); The Hnxniies Thnnir/h the Union (1890); The Broiniies Abroad {l^i)d) ; and contri- butions to peiioilioals.

COX, Samuel, clergyman, was born at Bustle- ton, Pa., Oct. 3, Ib-.j; son of Samuel and Helen Maria (Lyman) Cox. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 18415 as salutato- rian, and in 1849 was graduated at the General theological seminary, New York city. He was rector of Christ church, Manhassett, N. Y., 1849- 57; Church of the Ascension, Philadelphia, 18"i7-C"2; St. Paul's, Cinciunati, Ohio, 18(32-65; at Orange, N.J., 1805-G6; at Bordentown, N.J., 1866-'o8, and at St. James, Ne«'town, N.Y., 1868-88. He was archdeacon of Queens county, N.Y., 1889, and in 1890 was made dean of the Cathedral Church of the Incarnation, at Gar- den City. Long Island, N.Y. The University of Pennsylvania gave Iiiin the degrecof D.D. in 1865. He died in Garden City. L.I.. July 21, 1903.

COX, Samuel Hanson, clergv-man, was born at Railway, N.J., Aug. 25, 1793: son of James and Elizabeth (Shepard) Cox; grandson of Isaac and Susan (Hanson) Cox; great-grand.son of Samuel Hanson, planter, of Delaware; and a descendant of Sir Richard Cox of England. His father died in 1801, and his mother, with her five children, re- turned to the home of lier girlhood in Phila- delphia, Pa. Samiiel attended school at Westtown, near Phil- adelphia, until 1811, when he entered Bloom field academy, N.J. He afterward studied law in the of- fice of "William Halsey of Newark. Here he organized a volunteer corps of riflemen, who served at intervals during the war of 1812. The corps included young men from the best families of New Jersey. He had been Ijorn and reared a Quaker, but withdrew from the Society of Friends and joined the Presbyterian church. After a course in theology under Dr. James Richards and Dr. James P. "Wilson, he was licensed to preach; and on July 11, 1817. was ordained pastor of a church at Mendham, N.J., where after a succes,sful ministry of more than three years he accepted a call to tlie Spring street Presbyterian church of New York in 1821 ; re-

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moving to the Laight street church in 1825, where his congregation was made up of wealrhy resi- dents of the neighborhood. He wao one of the founders and a member of the board of trustees of the University of the City of New York, 1830- 35. 1837-38 and Avith the Rev. Dr. Charles P. Jlcllvaine was appointed to open the course of instruction with a .series of lec-tures, 1831-32. He was a sufferer from the epidemic of cholera in 1832, and refused to leave his post of duty until impaired health forced him to take a trip to Europe in 1833. He attended the anniversary in London of the British and foreign Bible society and made a notable speech before that body. On this visit he defended his country against the assaults made by the anti-slavery advocates; but what he heard .so wrought upon his mind that on his return to New York he preached an anti- slavery sermon which was severely criticised. In the controversy in his own church (Presby- terian) he took a conservative course and tried to avert a division on the question of slavery. On other matters of church polity he championed the new-school, while on the question of order and discipline he maintained the old-school tenets. In 1834 lie was elected to the chair of pastoral theology in the Auburn, N.Y., theological seminary, resigning in 1837 to accept the imsto- rate of the First Presbyterian church in Brook- lyn, N.Y. He was president of the board of directors -of the Union theological seminary, New York city, 1840-41. He made his second visit to Europe in 1846 and attended the Evangeli- cal alliance in London. In 1846 he was modera- tor of the General assembly of the Presbyterian church. Failing health compelled him to resign his pastoral charge in 1854 and he made his home on a propert}- at Owego, N. Y., purcha.sed through the liberality of his parishioners. He was presi- dent of Ingham university, a school for girls at Le Roy, N.Y., 1856-63. and a resident of New York city, 1863-69. In 1869 he removed to Bronxville, N.Y., where he spent the remainder of his life in retirement. The College of New Jer.sey conferred upon him the honorary degree of M.A. in 1818; "\Villiams gave him that of D.D. in 1825, and Marietta college that of LL.D. in 1855. He was married April 7, 1817, to Abiah Hyde Cleveland of Norwich, Conn., and in 1870* to Anna Bacon of Hartford, Conn. He published : QHfikvrism not Christi'tiiittj (IKi'i) : The Mijiistry nf Xccd (1835); Mnnories nf Ernrts, Cornelius "Wis- ner Introduction (1835); Tftcopnnistor (1842) r Boirir'.i Hi story of the Popes, irith ConstiCiition (1847); Intervieirs, Mem.yrahle and Use/nl (1853); and numerous sermons and addresses. He died at Bronxville. N Y., Oct. 2. 1880.

COX, Samuel Sullivan, representative, was born in Zanesville, Ohio. J^ept. 30, 1824: son of