Jacob Dolson Cox
Born: October 27, 1828
Birthplace: Montreal, British Columbia
Father: Jacob Dolson Cox 1792 – 1852
Mother: Thedia Redelia Kenyon 1804 – 1876
(Buried: Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York)
Wife: Helen Clarissa Finney 1828 – 1911
(Buried: Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Children:
Helen Finney Cox Black 1850 – 1936
(Buried: Wooster Cemetery, Wooster, Ohio)
Jacob Dolson Cox Jr. 1852 – 1930
(Buried: Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio)
Kenyon Cox 1856 – 1919
(Buried: Cremated ashes Scattered in Cornish, New Hampshire)
Charles Norton Cox 1858 – 1907
(Buried: Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colorado)
Brewster Cox 1861 – 1861
(Buried: Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Dennison Cox 1867 – 1868
(Buried: Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Charlotte Hope Cox Pope 1871 – 1937
(Buried: Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Education:
1851: Graduated from Oberlin College
Occupation before War:
Attorney in Warren, Ohio
1860 – 1861: Ohio State Senator
Civil War Career:
1861: Brigadier General of Ohio State Volunteers
1861 – 1863: Brigadier General of Union Army, Volunteers
1861: Brigade Commander of Kanawha Brigade
1861: Served under McClellan in Kanawha Valley Campaign
1861 – 1862: Union Army Commander, District of Kanawha
1862: Commander of Kanawha Division, 9th Army Corps
1862: Led assault on the Confederates, Battle of South Mountain
1862: Division Commander in the Battle of Antietam, Maryland
1862 – 1863: Major General of Union Army, Volunteers
1863: U.S. Senate let his rank of Major General Expire
1863 – 1864: Brigadier General of Union Army, Volunteers
1863: Union Army Commander, District of Ohio
1863 – 1864: Commander of Union Army, 23rd Army Corps
1864 – 1865: Division Commander during Franklin – Nashville
1864: Credited with saving Union Battle Line at Battle of Franklin
1864 – 1866: Major General of Union Army Volunteers, reconfirmed
1865: Division Commander at Battle of Wilmington, North Carolina
1865 – 1866: Union Army Commander for District of Beaufort
1865: Union Army Commander at Battle of Wyse Fork, North Carolina
1866: Mustered out of the Union Army on January 1st
Occupation after War:
1866 – 1868: Governor of Ohio
1868 – 1869: Attorney in Cincinnati Ohio
1869 – 1870: United States Secretary of Interior Department
1870 – 1873: Attorney in Cincinnati, Ohio
1871: One of the organizers of Liberal Republican Party
1873 – 1878: President of Wabash Railroad
1877 – 1879: United States Congressman from Ohio
1879 – 1881: Attorney in Cincinnati, Ohio
1881 – 1897: Dean of Cincinnati Law School
1882: Author of Atlanta
1882: Author of The March to the Sea: Franklin and Nashville
1882: Author of The Second Battle of Bull Run
1885 – 1889: President of University of Cincinnati
1897: Author of The Battle of Franklin, Tennessee
Declined U.S. Ambassadorship to Spain
1900: Author of Military Reminiscences of the Civil War
Died: Magnolia, Massachusetts, near Gloucester, Massachusetts
Cause of Death: Massive Heart Attack
Age at time of Death: 71 years old
Burial Place: Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio
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