Cowles, W. H. H – Cox, Palmer
Cowles, W. H. H
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born April 22, 1840, in Hamptonville, N. C. He served in the confederate army; and was twice wounded. He was reading clerk of the senate of North Carolina from 1872 to 1874; and in the latter year was elected solicitor of the tenth judicial district of the state, in which position he served four years. He was a member of the democratic state executive committee for eight years; and in 1884 was elected a representative from North Carolina to the forty-ninth congress; and received the re-election to the fiftieth, fifty-first and fifty-second congresses as a democrat.
Cowles, William Hutchinson
lawyer, journalist, was born Aug. 14, 1866, in Evanston, Ill. In 1887 he graduated from Yale college with the degree of A.
B.; in 1889 graduated from the Yale Law school, and the same year was admitted to the Connecticut bar. He is the editor and owner of the Morning Spokane Review of Spokane, Wash.
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.
Cowley, George B
physician, journalist, state legislator, poet, was born May 16, 1861, near Rio, Wis. In 1882 he graduated from the Missouri Medical college of St. Louis. He is the editor and owner of The Chief of Cowgill, Mo. He has filled many important public offices in his county and state; and in 1897 was elected a member of the Missouri state legislature. He is the author of a number of religious and historical poems.
His poems have appeared in Poets of America, and other standard collections.
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, Christopher C
physician, lieutenant-governor, was born Aug. 16, 1816, in Baltimore, Md. He was appointed commissioner of pensions in 1868; a member of the board of health in 1871, acting as president of the board for several years. His special line of study was medicine, and he practiced both as a physician and a surgeon; and was for one year a professor in one of the Philadelphia colleges. He served as president of a medical society; as a surgeon in the army during the rebellion, and was surgeon-general of the state of Maryland. Before the close of the war he was elected lieutenant-governor of Maryland.
Cox, E. St. Julian
lawyer, jurist, was born. Feb. 21, 1833, in Switzerland, during a temporary sojourn of his father's family, who was vice-consul at that time.
He was educated at the Academy of the Protestant Episcopal church of Philadelphia; studied law, moved to Wisconsin in 1852, and was subsequently admitted to the bar. In 1857 he practiced law in St.
Peter, Minn., and the following year was appointed United States court commissioner. During the war he was commissioned first lieutenant of company E, second regiment Minnesota volunteer infantry, and has done good service for his country as captain of company E, first regiment Minnesota Rangers, cavalry, in charge of frontier posts. He has been judge of Waukesha county, Wis.; United States commissioner of Minnesota, and judge of the ninth judicial district of Minnesota. He now practices his profession in Los Angeles, Cal., to which city he moved on account of ill health.
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.
Cox, Isaac Newton
congressman, was born Aug. 1, 1846, in Fallsburgh, N. Y.
He has been frequently sent as delegate to democratic conventions, state and local.
In 1886 he was appointed chairman of the commission to make an examination of the Northern Pacific railroad, and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Cox, Jacob Dolson
soldier, lawyer, congressman, author, was born Oct. 27, 1828, of American parents, in Montreal, Canada. In 1861 he was appointed a brigadier-general of Ohio volunteers; and was promoted to the rank of major-general.
He was chosen governor of Ohio for the years 1866-67; and in 1869 was appointed secretary of the interior department. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-fifth congress. He is the author of Atlanta; The March to the Sea; and The Second Battle of Bull Run as Connected with the Fitz-John Porter Case.
Cox, James
artist, was born in 1751 in England. For many years he was the fashionable drawing-master in Philadelphia and did much to advance the fine arts. He made a remarkable collection of works on the fine arts, numbering over 5,000 volumes, which he sold, during the latter part of his life, to the Library company of Philadelphia, for an annuity of $400. He died in 1834 in Philadelphia, Pa.
Cox, James
soldier, congressman, was born in 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 brigadiergeneral of militia. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey during the years 1809 and 1810. He died Sept. 12, 1810, in Monmouth county, N. J.
Cox, James Farley
marine underwriter, was 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, Joseph
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 4, 1822, in Chambersburg, Pa. In 1830 he moved with his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio, which city has since been his home. He received his education in the Miami university of Oxford, and graduated from the Cincinnati Law school, from which institution he received the degrees of A. M. and LL. D. He has been 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.
Judge Cox is an honorary member of the celebrated Literary club of Cincinnati, and a prominent member of several literary, historical and archæological societies. He has been prominent as a lecturer on those subjects, many of which have received publication in book form.
Cox, Kenyon
painter, was born Oct. 27, 1856, in Warren, Ohio. He has painted portraits and landscapes, but prefers the decorative treatment of the human figure.
Has also illustrated and written on artistic subjects. His principal works in public places are: Venice, a decorative painting in Walker art building, Bowdoin college of Brunswick, Maine; and The Art and The Science, two decorations in the Library of congress in Washington, D. C.
Cox, Leander M
soldier, congressman, was born in Virginia. Moving to Kentucky, he was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-third 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.
Cox, Lemuel
master mechanic, was born in 1736 in Boston, Mass. He was the inventor of a machine for cutting. card-wire, the first projector of a powdermill in Massachusetts, and the first to suggest employing the prisoners on Castle island to make nails. He died Feb. 18, 1806, in Charlestown, Mass. a
Cox, Nicholas Nichols
soldier, farmer, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 6, 1837, in Bedford county, Tenn. He was confederate colonel and served during most of the war with General Forrest. He was an elector on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket in 1860, and was elector on the Greeley ticket in 1872. He was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third and fiftyfourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Cox, Palmer
artist, author, was born April 28, 1840, in Canada. He became famous the world over as the author of a series of books entitled The Brownies, Their Book; Another Brownie Book, and other works. His articles and poems have appeared constantly in St. Nicholas, Wide Awake, Harper's Young People, Little Folks, and various other well-known publications. A volume entitled Queer People contains a collection of many of his contributions to juvenile literature. In his younger days he lived on the Pacific coast, and there published Squibs of California and various other works. He illustrates his own works, and has a studio and sanctum on Broadway, New York city. His other works are: Hans Von Petter's Trip to Gotham; How Columbus Found America; That Stanley; Queer People, such as Goblins, etc.; Queer People with Claws and Wings; Queer People with Wings and Stings.