Youngest son of John and Nancy Cox, he was born 73 years ago in a house in the Loague-Fox neighborhood on West Goldsborough near Hoffman Street. His first work was as a delivery boy to Cedar Lake and St.John and other rural communities for Bartholomae's bakery. After his father's death he went with his mother to Lowell, and during residence there, worked in Hoevet and Ruge's general store, whose site is now occupied by the Sears store building.
A later move took him to Chicago and then to Long Beach, where he is survived by his wife and a daughter, Mrs. Betty Nelson. Another daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Monroe, lives in Chicago.
A brother, Charles, one of the four Cox boys, had a cigar factory here in the early days, their cousin, Cordie Ragon, recalls. Other cousins include Mrs. Frank Krimbill of Crown Point and Mrs., Frank Paulson of Hebron.
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