Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Cox, John A. January 22, 1835 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 543
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    John A Cox was born January 22, 1835, at Morgantown, 
Virginia, now West Virginia.  He is the son of Levi Cox and 
Mary Meyers Cox.
    Levi Cox was born in 1801 in Delaware and removed from 
there to Virginia in 1812 where he worked as a day laborer.  
He married Miss Mary Meyers of near Grandville, Monongalia 
county, Virginia, who died in 1845 in Morgantown.
    John A Cox grew up on the farm, and was educated at the 
subscription schools of Virginia.  He followed coal mining 
for ten years.  He enlisted in Company A, Third West 
Virginia Infantry.  The regiment was afterward mounted and 
called the Sixth West Virginia Cavalry.
    Mr Cox was in the service three years, two months and 
thirteen days. When he came out of the army, he resumed 
mining for a short time, and then farmed for some years.  He 
spent two years in the West, the greater portion of the time 
in Minnesota.  From the West, he came to Broad Ford, where 
he had control of H C Frick's coal works for two years.  He 
afterwards took charge of J M Schoonmaker's works for about 
ten years, when he settled on a farm near Mill Run in 1881, 
and remained eight years.  In 1889 he started a store at 
Mill Run, and has met with good success in the mercantile 
business.
    He was married to Miss Julia Ann Collins, December 28, 
1864, by the Rev George Westfall of the Methodist church, a 
daughter of William Collins of Prideville Iron Works near 
Morgantown.
    He is the father of nine children, all of whom are 
living: Frank Cox, born October 13, 1865, in Washington 
county, Penna; Eliza Cox, born June 7, 1870, in Fillmore 
county, Minnesota; Orline Cox, born July 1, 1872, in Fayette 
county, Penna; John A Cox Jr, born May 27, 1874, in Fayette 
county, Penna; Leender Cox, born June 5, 1875, in Fayette 
county, Penna, near Broad Ford; Filmore Cox, born November 
16, 1876, near Broad Ford; Signal Cox, born March 10, 1878, 
near Broad Ford; Ada Cox, born July 6, 1880, near Broad 
Ford; and Jannette Cox, born August 26, 1883, at Mill Run.
    Mr Cox has held the office of school director once in 
Upper Tyrone township and one term in Springfield township.  
In the war he was severely injured in the right knee, 
besides receiving two other bullet wounds.  He draws a 
pension of $360 a year.

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Originally submitted 2000.

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