Biographical Sketch of Argus Cox, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Argus Cox, attorney at law, and prosecuting attorney of Wright County,
Mo., was born in Van Buren County, Iowa, in 1856, and is the son of
Randolph and Sarah (McIntosh) Cox.  The father was born in Indiana, and
is a farmer by occupation.  He was reared in Illinois, being taken 
there when a child, but afterward moved to Iowa, where he married Miss
Sarah McIntosh, and became the father of nine children.  He moved to
Wright County, Mo., in 1884, and is now located at Mountain Grove.  His
wife is also living.  Argus Cox was the fourth child in the order of
birth.  He attained his growth in Van Buren County, Iowa, receiving a
good literary education, and was a graduate from the law department of
the State University in 1882.  He then entered the law office of 
Sloanwork & Brown, Keosauqua, Iowa, where he remained for some time.
Previous to his graduating in law he had taught school, being principal
of the graded school at Milton, and he now returned to that profession.
He first began the practice of law at Greenfield, Adair County, Iowa,
but went from there to Jasper County, Mo., remaining there for sometime
and then moved to Mountain Grove, Wright County, Mo., in the spring of
1884, where he engaged in the practice of law.  In 1886 he was elected
prosecuting attorney of Wright County, and is one of the promising
young men of the county.  He is a Republican in politics, is a member
of the I. O. O. F., and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
He choose for his companion in life Miss Emma E. Starr, who was born in
Wisconsin in 1862.  They have one child, Roy.  

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