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schook of Xewton and was graduateii A.B. from
Harvard in 1SS4 and A.M. from Norwich uni-
versity in 1S8T. On Aug. 1. 1S84. he entere«i the
service of the U.S. weather bureau : was assistant
observer at Chicago and Boston stations, 1SS5-S6:
established a station in 1S87 at Norwich univer-
sity, Northfield. Vt.. and was in charge of the
New Haven. Conn., station, lSSS-94. In October,
1S94. he was promoted local forecast oflScial and
sent to Chicago. He was promoted national fore-
cast official in August. 1S95. and professor of
meteorology in March, 1S99. having charge of the
Western forecast district of fourteen states and
also of the Upper L^kes. He was married Sept.
8, 1S?7, to Mary Cavanagh of Somerville. ^lass.
He was elected a member of the Chicago academy
of sciences, April 1. 1S99. His published writ-
ings consist of scientific contributions to periodi-
cals and include : TTiundt^rstorm awJ Wtit-rrifj-jut
in the American JItteoroh:»ffical Journal. December,
1SS9; and Storm Si-jnals on the Great Lakes in Bul-
letin No. 24 of the U.S. "Weather Bureau. Jan-
uary. 1*99.
COXt Jacob Dolson, >:atesman. was born in Montreal, Cana^ia, Oct. 27. is-^:?; son of Jacob Dolson and Thedia Redelia ^Kenyon) Cox. His parents were natives of the United States and residents of New York, and he received his primary education in that city. On his father's side he was descended from Michael Cox (or KochJ a Hanoverian, who emigrated to New York in 1702. On his mother's side he was descended from Payne Kenyon. a Revolutionary sol- dier of Connecticut, who was at Bur- goyne's surrender ; from Freeman Allyn, Another Revolution- ary soldier of Con- 'necticut, who fought at Groton against Bene«Jict Arnold, and from Elder William Brewster of the -Vay- jloirer. The AUyns were of the earliest colonists of Salem and Manchester, Mass. He removed to Ohio in 1S46, was graduated from Oberlin college in ISol, was admitted to the bar in 1S.>3, and practised his profession at War- ren, Ohio. In iJ^iO he was elected to the state senate as a Republican. As brigadier-gen- eral of the state militia he was active at the outbreak of the civil war in aiding General HcClellan in organizing and forwarding state
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troops and was appointed by Governor Dennison
brigadier-general of Ohio troops in the service
of the Uniteil States. On May 17. 1S61. President
Lincoln commissioned him brigadier-general of
the U.S. volunteers and he commanded an inde-
pendent column under McCIellan in the West-
Virginia campaign, from July to September,
1S61, and under Rosecrans from September to
Deceml^r of the same year.. He commanded
the district of the Kanawha until August. 1S62,
when he was ordered to Washington. He led the
advance of the right wing of McClellan's army at
South Mountain and opened the battle. Septem-
ber 14. and when General Reno fell, he succeeded
to the command of the 9th army corps, directing
its movements in the battle of Antietam. Sept.
17. 1S62. On Oct. 6. 1S62, he was promoteil
major-general of volunteers and ordered to West
Virginia, where he drove back the Confederates
and commanded the district till April. 1S6.3. He
was then ordered to report to General Bumside,
department of the Ohio, and commanded the
district of Ohio and Michigan until November,
when he was given temporary command of the
23d army corps in East Tennessee. Later he
commanded the 3d division of the corps and
joined Sherman in his Georgia campaign, leading
his division in all the battles from May to Sepn
tember. resuming command of the corps during
the absence of General Schofield. conducting it
in tKe campaign against Hood in October, partici-
pating in the battle of Franklin. Nov. 30, lSft4.
and again resuming command of the 3d division
in the battle of Nashville, on Dec. 16. IS&L For
services at the battle of Franklin he was restored
to the rank of major-general, from which he had
been re<luce«.l in April, 1S63. by reason of the num*
ber of appointments being in excess of the law,
and was given permanent command of the
23d corps. He was transferred with his corps in
February, 1S65, to North Carolina as part of Scho-
field's army, capturing Fort Anderson, the cities
of Wilmington and Kingston, joining Sherman's
army at Goldsboro and commanding the district
of western North Carolina at Greensboro after
the surrender of General Johnston. He resigned
from the service Jan. 1, 1S66. and retumeil to
Ohio, where he was elected governor of the state,
serving 1S66-67. He was secretary of the interior
in President Grant s cabinet. lS€9-70. and a rep-
resentative from Toledo in the 4oth congress,
1S77-79. In ISSI he was elected dean and pro-
fessor of constitutional law and civil proce<lure
in the Cinciniici law school. In addition to his
duties as dean of the law school he was president
of the L niversity of Cincinnati. 1SS4-S9. In 1S97
he retired from the deanship of the law school
and from active professional life. He was mar-
ried to Helen, daughter of the Rev. Charles
