Col. Thomas Cox

COX, FRIERSON

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 4/17/2008 at 00:06:32

PIONEER LAW-MAKERS, 1890

Colonel Thomas Cox, another prominent member, led the citizens when, in later years in Jackson County, they rose en masse against the gang of gamblers and counterfeiters who were plying their trade to the detriment of the good people and the advancing civilization of the State. He was an engineer and engaged with John Frierson, a member from Muscatine County, in locating and surveying the new Capital, Iowa City, upon the Iowa river. His vote was the turning point in the location of the Capitol at Iowa City, and the territory and State became indebted to him by whose vote the location was determined.