Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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JOHN L. COX

John L. COX, son of H. B. and Caroline (REEL) COX, was born in Pottawattamie county, Iowa, September 12, 1853, and came to Harrison County with his parent s when less than two years old, and has been a resident of the county ever since. He left the paternal roof in the spring of 1874, having attended the schools of this county where he received a good education, and at that time entered the Military Academy at West Point, where he remained four years, graduation June 16, 1878, after which he returned to his home, remained a short time, and was commissioned as Second Lieutenant, in the Twentieth United States Infantry, and went to Ft. BROWN, Tex., and served one year, returning home.

September 7, 1879, he was united in marriage to Evelyn HARRIS, the daughter of W. T. and Margaret (MURPHY) HARRIS. She was born in Harrison County, March 1, 1859, and was the third child of a family of four, who grew to their majority. Soon after their marriage, our subject and his wife moved to their present place, into an old house. His present farm consists of two hundred and seventy acres, ninety of which are under the plow, twenty acres in timber and the balance in pasture and meadowland. Since moving to the place, Mr. COX has provided the premises with a modern style farmhouse, the upright of which is 16x32 feet and two stories high.

Their home has been blessed by the advent of four children, born as follows; Guy H., July 29, 1880; Gertrude, December 7, 1882; Grace M., April 12, 1885, and Benjamin, September 19, 1890.

Of our subject's wife's people, it may be said, that they came to Harrison County at an early day and about 1866 returned to Clay County, Ind., where her mother died June 2, 1888, aged sixty-six years, while the father still survives, and is seventy-two years of age at this writing.

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