Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 537
SOLOMON J. COX

Solomon J. COX, a farmer of section 14, Allen Township, is a native of Harrison County, and was born in Calhoun Township. He lived in that township until he was fifteen years of age when his parents removed to Magnolia Township, where he remained with them until he was twenty-six years of age. He then rented land for one year and bought the place he now occupies, consisting of one hundred and twenty acres of wild land, for which he paid $10 per acre. He now has two hundred and forty acres of land; one hundred and thirty of which is under the plow, with the balance in pasture and meadowland. His improvements consist in part of a frame house 20x24 feet, on and a half stories high, two regular wells, a barn 24x40 feet, a granary 11x22 feet, an orchard of one hundred and fifty trees, with a grove of eight acres.

Our subject is a son of Isaac E. and Mary A. COX, natives of Ohio who had a family of eight children�Sarah (deceased), Rachel, John, (deceased), James, Solomon J., Hannah, Abraham and Mary.

Mr. COX was married November 14. 1881. To Jane CHATBURN, daughter of Richard and Mary CHATBURN, natives of England, who had a family of ten children: John, Jonas, Ellen, Margaret, Thomas, Jane, Mary E. (deceased), Elizabeth, (deceased), and two who died in infancy.

Mr. and Mrs. COX are the parents of six children: Richard, born November 1, 1882; Millie, January 5, 1884; Isaac, (deceased), September 9, 1885; Alice and Albert, (twins), born April 11, 1888; Robert, December 12, 1890. Politically, Mr. Cox is a Republican.

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