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cox
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-
1/ a>ri-*iM^A4uiJi>A OeiZ^
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
