Cox, Samuel Hanson – Coyner, Charles Luther
Cox, Samuel Hanson
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 25, 1793, in Rahway, N. J. He was a presbyterian clergyman of the new school party noted for his eccentricities and fondness for controversy. He was the author of Quakerism not Christianity; Theopneuston, or Select Scriptures Considered; Interviews Memorable and Useful; and a number of other works. He died Oct. 2, 1881, in Bronxville, N. Y.
Cox, Samuel Sullivan
statesman, author, was born in 1824 in Ohio. He was a noted democratic congressman from Ohio, and later from New York, who was a popular lecturer, humorist, and writer of travels. He was minister to Turkey in 1885-86. He is the author of Eight Years in Congress; Why We Laugh; Three Decades of Federal Legislation; Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey; A Buckeye Abroad; Search for Winter Sunbeams in the Riviera, Corsica, Algiers, and Spain; Arctic Sunbeams; Orient Sunbeams; and Free Land and Free Trade. He died Sept. 10, 1889, in New York city.
Cox, Thomas Bolin
soldier, lawyer, was born Oct. 14, 1838, in Greensboro, Ala. He attended the Howard college, Alabama, and in 1870 completed his law course at the university of Virginia. He served as a soldier in behalf of the confederacy; fought at the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Port Gibson, Atlanta and Nashville; was wounded twice, captured once, and surrendered with Gen. Johnston at Greensboro, N. C. He practices law in Waco, Tex., in which state he has practiced his profession for nearly twenty years. He was one of the founders and builders of Baylor university, and also the First Baptist church of Waco.
Cox, Thomas Lillard
educator, merchant, was born Oct. 18, 1859, in Decatur, Tenn. In 1882 he was elected president of Clinton college, Arkansas, for four years; and in 1886 he became superintendent of the public schools of Morrillton. In 1895 he purchased the oldest and largest book and stationery house in Arkansas, and became president of the company at Little Rock.
Cox, Walter S
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 25, 1826, in Georgetown, D. C.
In 1879 he was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia.
Cox, William Ruffin
soldier, planter, legislator, congressman, was born March 11, 1832, in Scotland Neck, N. C. He received his education at the Franklin college, Tennessee, and at the Lebanon Law school. During the war he became brigadier-general in the confederate service. He attained success as a lawyer, and was solicitor of the sixth judicial circuit court. He a served with distinction as judge of the fourth judicial district court of North Carolina. He was a member of the fortyseventh, 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, Winfred Douglass
clergyman, was born Feb. 12, 1858, in Monroe county, W. Va. After receiving the rudiments of his education in the public schools he attended the Northwestern university of Evanston, Ill.; and the Lawrence university of Appleton, Wis. Since 1881 he has been engaged in the ministry, and has filled pastorates in the Methodist Episcopal church in various cities in Wisconsin, and is now at Menominee Falls. He has contributed many valuable articles to current literature.
Coxe, Alfred C
lawyer, jurist, was born in Auburn, N. Y. In 1882 he was appointed 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
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 Satolli. His other works comprise Impressions of England; Thoughts on the Services; Apollos, or the Way of God; The Criterion, a Means of Distinguishing Truth from Error; Institutes of Christian History; Signs of the Times; L'Episcopat de l'Occident, a defense of Anglican theology; and The Penitential.
He died in 1896.
Coxe, Eckley Brinton
mining engineer, author, was born June 4, 1839, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a Pennsylvania mining engineer who has published Theoretical Mechanics.
Coxe, Frank
banker, capitalist, was born Nov. 2, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He is president of the Commercial National bank of Charlotte, N. C.; and the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railway. He is the sole owner of the Battery Park hotel of Asheville, N. C., and the Battery Park bank.
Coxe, Frank Morrell
soldier, was born in 1845, in Philadelphia, Pa.
During the civil war he was promoted to captain, and in 1866 transferred to the regular army as captain of infantry. In 1876 he was appointed major, and is now lieutenant-colonel and deputy paymastergeneral. His principal service during the past thirty years has been on line and staff duty on the plains and frontier of Texas, Arizona and the Pacific slope. &
Coxe, John Redman
physician, author, was born in 1773 in Trenton, N. J. He was a noted physician who was the first to introduce the practice of vaccination in Philadelphia, and was the author of Inflammation; Importance of Medicine; Vaccination; Combustion; American Dispensatory; Recognition of Friends in Another World; Agaricus Atramentarius; The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen Epitomized; Refutation of Harvey's Claim to the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood; and Appeal to the Public. He died March 22, 1864, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Coxe, Margaret
author, was born in 1800 in Burlington, N. J. She was the author of Claims of the Country on American Females; Wonders of the Deep; and Ladies' Companion.
Coxe, Tench
political economist, author, was born May 22, 1755, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a once noted Philadelphia writer on commerce and political economy, and the author of Inquiry into the Principles of a Commercial System for the United States; View of the United States; On the Navigation Act; Thoughts on Naval Power; and Address on American Manufactures. He died July 17, 1824, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Coxe, William
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1813 to 1815; served in the state legislature, and was chosen speaker of the assembly. He died in Burlington, Vt.
Coy, Edward Gustin
educator, author, was born Aug. 23, 1844, in Ithaca, N. Y. He was a professor in Phillips academy of Andover until 1892, when he was elected headmaster of Hotchkiss school of Lakeville, Conn. He is the author of Greek for Beginners; and First Greek Reader.
Coyle, John Henry
lawyer, author, was born. Feb. 5, 1856, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
He was admitted to the bar in 1880, and practices his profession at Antelope, Cal., where he has served as justice of the peace. He is the author of Mining Booms Past and Present; Bobnot's Ups and Downs in Politics; and other works.
Coyle, John Patterson
clergyman, author, was born in 1852 in Pennsylvania. He is a congregational clergyman, formerly of North Adams, Mass., but settled in Denver at the time of his death. The Imperial Christ, with a Biographical Introduction by George A. Gates; and The Spirit in Literature and Life. He died in 1895.
Coyner, Charles Luther
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Feb. 8, 1853, in Long Glade, Va. In 1877 he was admitted to the bar. He has been town clerk, deputy surveyor, county attorney for ten years, and special district attorney.
He has served as special district judge; judge of the probate; and judge of the county courts of Duval county, Tex. He was a delegate from his county to the Deep Water national convention in 1892; and a delegate to the World's Fair at Chicago. He is the author of The Life of Captain S. B. Coyner (his brother); Twenty Years in Texas; A Greenhorn in Texas; and a Tribute, a poem on the Coyner Family.