Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Cox, Justice
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Buckingham Township


JUSTICE COX retired, P.O. Buckingham, was born in 
Kingsessing, Philadelphia county, November 6, 1805.  He is a 
son of Justice and Elizabeth (Paschall) Cox, natives of 
Philadelphia county.  Otto Ernest Cox, from whom this family 
is descended, came from Sweden in 1638 and settled on the 
bank of the Delaware, where he took up a large tract of land 
in the then province of New Sweden.  One of Mr. Cox's 
ancestors, Hans Cox, was a governor of New Sweden, and 
another, Captain Lesse Cox, met William Penn on his arrival 
and acted as interpreter for him when making his treaties 
with the Indians, at Shackamaxon.  The family continued 
landed proprietors in Philadelphia county until Mr. Cox 
moved to Philadelphia in 1851.  He was educated at the 
Hamilton Academy and at Richard Moore's school in 
Quakertown, to which he traveled by stage-coach from the old 
"White Horse" hotel on Second street, Philadelphia.  After 
leaving school he took a position in a store in 
Philadelphia, but before coming of age began farming, which 
business with dairying and grazing he continued until he 
retired.  He was somewhat interested in politics in his 
younger days, having been justice of the peace in 
Philadelphia for nearly ten years and was a judge of 
election at the time of the "Buckshot war."  Mr. Cox was for 
many years warden of St. James church, Kingsessing, and well 
knew Dr. Colign, who was the last rector sent from Sweden 
and received his appointment from Bernadotte.  In 1851 Mr. 
Cox purchased the farm which he still owns in Bucks county 
and which is part of the Watson grant.  He was married in 
1829 to Mary Moloney, a native of Philadelphia and daughter 
of James Moloney of Limerick, Ireland, by whom he had eight 
children:  Gustavus Adolphus, married to Sarah, daughter of 
Thomas W. Bye, of Buckingham; James M., married to Roselma 
Josephine, daughter of Captain Joseph Archambault; Justice, 
married to Anna W., daughter of Colonel Richard Oakford, of 
Scranton; William, married to Ida M. Alburger, of 
Philadelphia; Elizabeth, married to Robert C. Cornelius, of 
Philadelphia; Mary M., married to Dr. W. T. Robinson of 
Philadelphia, and since deceased; and Sarah and Harry, 
deceased.  Mrs. Cox died in 1852.  Of Mr. Cox's sons, 
Gustavus A. is a farmer in Buckingham, James M. and William 
are in the mercantile business, and Justice Cox, Jr., is in 
the iron business in Philadelphia.  Mr. Cox numbers 
twenty-two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren among 
his descendants.