Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Cox, B. Wilson February 29, 1872 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

  B. WILSON COX, well known as a limeburner and business man 
of Whitemarsh township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, is 
the son of Charles A. and Margaret H. (Davis) Cox. He was 
born at Cold Point, in Plymouth township, February 29, 1872. 
He was educated in the schools of the neighborhood, and also 
attended the Friends' Central School in Philadelphia, and 
took a commercial course in Pierce Business College. He then 
engaged in business at his father's extensive lime quarries 
and kilns, in Whitemarsh township, and is now the general 
manager.

  He married Miss Ida Jackson, a daughter of Andrew Jackson, 
of Norristown. The couple have one child, Margaret H., born 
November 18, 1902. Mr. Cox is an active supporter of the 
Republican party, although he has never sought or held 
office, preferring to attend strictly to business. He is a 
member of the Masonic order, having attained the Commandery, 
degrees. He and his family attend the Cold Point Baptist 
church. The Cox family are of English origin, and their 
ancestors were members of the Society of Friends.

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