Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 958
JAMES PERRY COX

James Perry COX, an enterprising farmer of section 11, St. John’s Township, is the son of Jacob and Sarah (FOX) COX, and was born in Putnam County, Ind., May 3, 1845, and was the second child of a family of five, he came to Harrison County when eight years of age, with his parents, who settled in Pottawattamie County, but came to this county in the autumn of 1854, and located on section 12, of St. John’s Township. Our subject remained at home until twenty-one years of age, when he returned to the Hoosier State, remained eight months, and came back to Harrison County, rented land after he had worked out two years and then moved to his present home.

He was united in marriage October 25, 1869, to Barbara BARNETT, a native of Putnam County, Ind., who was born July 9, 1845. Mr. and Mrs. COX are the parents of nine children: Dexter, George, Charles, Edgar, Thomas, Pearl, Sarah, Alex. and Bertha.

Politically, our subject is a Republican, and stands high in the community in which he lives.

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