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Cowles, George W – Cox, Hannah

Cowles, George W

educator, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Otisco, N. Y. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-first congress, and served as judge of Wayne county, N. Y., during 1863-70.

Cowles, Giles Hooker

clergyman, was born Aug. 26, 1766, in Farmington, Conn. In 1810 he was appointed by the Connecticut missionary society to travel through Ohio, and formed or assisted in forming most, if not all, of the congregational churches in the northeastern part of that state. He died July 16, 1835, in Austinburg, Ohio.

Cowles, Henry

clergyman, theologian, author, was born April 24, 1803, in Norfolk, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman who was professor of theology at Oberlin college in 1835-48. He was the author of Gospel Manna for Christian Pilgrims; Hebrew History; and Critical Notes on the Old and New Testament, in sixteen volumes. He died Sept. 6, 1881.

Cowles, Henry B

lawyer, congressman, was born March 18, 1798, in Hartford, Conn. He served as a member of the New York legislature from Putnam county. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1829 to 1831.

Cowley, Charles

lawyer, author, was born in 1832 in England. He is a lawyer of Lowell, and the author of Memories of the Indians and Pioneers of Lowell; Illustrated History of Lowell; Famous Divorces of all Ages; and Our Divorce Courts.

Cox, Abraham Siddon

surgeon, was born in 1800 in New York. He had been for many years one of the most eminent medical practitioners of New York city. At the beginning of the 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. He died July 29, 1864, at Lookout Mountain, Tenn.

Cox, Albert Hill

lawyer, state legislator, was born Dec. 25, 1848, in Troup county, Ga. He was solicitor-general of the Coweta circuit in 1872-76; in 1876-78 was elected state representative in the general assembly; and in 1888 was a delegate-at-large to the national democratic convention.

Cox, Allen M

lawyer, public official, was born Sept. 30, 1843, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y. For eight years he was mayor of Conneaut, Ohio; has been prosecuting attorney, and for several years was United States commissioner.

Cox, Argus

lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 26, 1856, in Van Buren county, Iowa.

In 1887 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Wright county, Mo., and in 1892 was elected judge of the eighteenth circuit.

Cox, Benjamin H

lawyer, was born March 16, 1851, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from the Cincinnati Law school, and has become one of the foremost lawyers of Ohio. He has been a member of the Cincinnati city council, and a member of the board of education of his native city.

Cox, Edward Travers

geologist, was born April 21, 1821, in Virginia. He is a geologist of New York city who made a number of important surveys, and published Annual Reports of the Geological Survey of Indiana.

Cox, Hannah

abolitionist, was born 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, in Longwood, Pa.