Tipton-Hamilton-Clinton County IN Archives Biographies.....Cox, Millard F. 1856 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   MILLARD F. COX, attorney, is a son of Aaron and Mary A. Cox, who came to
Indiana from Ohio in 1850, and located in Hamilton County on a farm between
Noblesville and Westfield. His father was born in Clinton County, Ohio, on the
25th day of September, 1820, and his mother was born in Greenup County, Ky., on
the 1st day of October, 1827, her maiden name being Skaggs. Greenup County was
named in honor of her ancestor, Gov. Greenup. Her father dying when she was nine
years old, her mother removed to Ohio, where Mary was married to Aaron Cox on
the 29th day of October, 1843. Millard was the fifth child born to them, and
this event occurred on the farm in Hamilton County on the 25th day of February,
1856; he began going to the country schools when five years old. Subsequently,
upon the removal of his parents to Noblesville in 1866, of which town his father
was appointed Postmaster by President Johnson, he attended the town schools
there until 1871, at which time he went to Frankfort, and entered the Crescent
newspaper office, then owned by his brother, Jabez T. Cox; he worked in that
office until the following spring, when, his parents having become residents of
Tipton, he went to that town, where he attended school in the winters of 1872-73
and 1873-74. During the summer of these years, he worked in the Times printing
office, and a part of the time in a brick yard, and on a farm. In the winter of
1874-75, he taught school until February, and from that time until the following
July worked at the printing trade. In August, 1875, he went to Indianapolis and
immediately began the study of law in December; in March, 1877, he was admitted
to the Superior Court bar, and he successfully passed the examination required
for admission to the bar of the United States District and Circuit Courts. Some
time in February, 1878, he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court; he
became Assistant Reporter of the Supreme Court in November of that year, and
from that time until the fall of 1880 he wrote hundreds of syllabi which appear
in the published reports covering that period. In December, 1880, he returned to
Tipton and began the practice of law; he is a Democrat in politics, and in 1882
was the candidate of his party for Prosecuting Attorney for the counties of
Tipton and Howard; he was appointed Master Commissioner of the Circuit Court in
September, 1881, but resigned the office in February, 1883; he is now practicing
law in Tipton.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


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