Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Cox, Samuel J. January 25, 1813 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 425
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Samuel J Cox was born January 25, 1813, in Luzerne 
township, Fayette county, Penna.
    Micheal Cox, grandfather, was born in Germany, came to 
American and settled in the eastern part of Pennsylvania.  
He was one of five who came to this part of the State and 
settled on what is known as Cox's Run in Luzerne township, 
taking what was termed "tomahawk possession" of a tract of 
land.  The names of three of this five were Cox, Sturgeon 
and Porter.
    Isaac Doney, maternal grandfather, was of Irish 
extraction and came from New Jersey to western Pennsylvania.
    Joseph Cox, father, was born in Luzerne township, 
Fayette county, Penna; was a farmer and married Mary Doney 
in about 1805, and died in 1816.  They had three children: 
Eliza Cox, deceased; William Cox, died in the Civil War 
after serving about two years, and Samuel J Cox.
    Samuel J Cox was educated in the schools at Brownsville, 
later he learned the trade of tailor under James McSherry, 
and carried on the merchant tailoring business at 
Brownsville about thirty years, when he removed to 
Connellsville in 1863, and has since remained there, engaged 
in the merchant tailor business.
    In 1835 he was married to Miss Nancy Work, a daughter of 
James Work, native of Dunbar township, Fayette county, 
Penna.  They had the following children: James Cox, died in 
infancy; Mary A Cox, deceased, who married Jacob Stahl and 
went to Kansas City and died there in July, 1888; Robert 
Bruce Cox, a carpenter and contractor, lives at 
Connellsville; John Cox, a painter; Joseph Cox, a carpenter, 
is married and lives in Pittsburgh; Thomas Cox, a 
railroader, is married, lives in Connellsville; William Cox, 
is married, lives in Connellsville; James B Cox, lives in 
Connellsville, is married and is an upholsterer by trade.  
Dorcas Cox lives in Connellsville with S J Cox.
    Mr Cox had three sons in the Civil War.  John Cox went 
out in Sickle's Brigade at the commencement of the war, 
fought to the close, and took part in the battle of 
Williamsburg and quite a number of others in the Army of the 
Potomac.  Robert Bruce Cox volunteered in the First 
Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry and served about three years, 
and took part in a number of battles.  Joseph Cox served 
three months, and took part in the capture of Morgan in the 
Ohio raid.
    Mr Cox has held the office of burgess of Connellsville 
for two terms, has been school director for two terms, and a 
member of the council several terms.  He is a member of the 
Protestant Methodist church, was one among its first 
members, and has held all of the offices of the church. He 
was sent as a delegate from the Pittsburgh conference to 
Baltimore, to the convention for the re-uniting of the two 
branches of the church after the war.  He is also a member 
of the Masonic order at Connellsville.

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