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Jacob Dolson Cox


Born
in Montreal, Canada
October 27, 1828

Died
August 04, 1900

Genre
History


Cox was born in Montreal, Canada, to American parents, Jacob Dolson Cox and Thedia Redelia Kenyon Cox. Cox married Helen Clarissa Finney, whom he met at Oberlin College in Ohio.

He became superintendent of the Warren, Ohio, school system as he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1853. As a strong abolitionist, in 1855 he helped to organize the Republican Party in Ohio and stumped for its candidates in counties surrounding Warren. He entered the Ohio State Senate in 1860 and formed a political alliance with Senator and future President James A. Garfield, and with Governor Salmon P. Chase. While in the legislature, he accepted a commission with the Ohio Militia as a brigadier general and spent much of the winter of 1860–61 studying mili ...more

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Average rating: 3.9 · 89 ratings · 10 reviews · 67 distinct works
Military Reminiscences of t...
3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2007 — 34 editions
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Sherman's Battle For Atlanta
3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1882 — 50 editions
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Military Reminiscences of t...
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Sherman's March To The Sea:...
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The Battle of Franklin
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Military Reminiscences of t...
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March to the Sea Franklin a...
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The battle of Franklin, Ten...
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