BIO: Michael J. COX, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 404.
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  MICHAEL J. COX, owner and proprietor of the McCartney House, at McCartney, 
Pa., has been in the hotel business at this place for some ten years and is 
well known to the traveling public.  He was born in Knox township, Clearfield 
county, Pa., April 16, 1863, and is a son of William and Mary Cox.
  The parents of Mr. Cox spent their lives in Clearfield county, where the 
father engaged in farming.  They reared the following children:  Mary, John, 
Maggie, William, Michael J. and Elizabeth.  William and Michael J. are twins.
  Michael J. Cox was reared on his father's farm and attended the country 
schools.  He then went into the woods and continued a lumberman until 1901 when 
he came to McCartney and purchased the McCartney House.  This is a quiet, well 
kept hotel, one in which the comfort of the guests is carefully looked after 
while the charges are very moderate.
  On October 15, 1891, Mr. Cox was married to Miss Sarah McCrossin, who is a 
member of one of the substantial old families of Clearfield county.  They have 
two children:  Luella and Frances.  They are members of the Catholic church.  
In politics Mr. Cox is a Democrat.  He belongs to Tyrone Lodge, No. 212, B. P. 
O. E.