Sullivan-Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....Cox, Amos 1830 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
  AMOS COX. - After a long life of useful activity, in which he has accumulated a
  comfortable fortune, and by his uprightness, benevolence and genial manners has
  won the esteem of his fellow citizens. Mr. Cox is now spending his old age in
  happy retirement at his beautiful home near Dushore, whose hospitable doors are
  ever open to his numerous friends and acquaintances. He was born in Anthony
  township, Columbia county, Pennsylvania, January 23, 1830, the son of David and
  Mary (Buck) Cox, the former of whom was born in New Jersey and the latter in
  Berks county, Pennsylvania. David Cox was an extensive farmer and also a
  blacksmith by trade, and became a wealthy and prominent citizen of Anthony
  township, where he died March 3, 1879, at the age of seventy-nine years, one
  month and fifteen days. He and his wife were members of the Evangelical
  Association. He maintained an untarnished reputation as a Christian for
  forty-three years, and he was a firm believer in the principles of the
  Republican party, to which he lent his hearty support. His wife died February
  19, 1890, aged eighty-three years, and both are interred in White Hall cemetery
  in Montour county, Pennsylvania, which was formerly a part of Columbia county.
  To this worthy couple five sons and two daughters were born, namely: John B.,
  deceased; Elizabeth, who is the widow of Peter Deal and lives in Montour county;
  Amos, our subject; Frank, deceased; Mary, who married Seth Bond and is deceased;
  William J., who is a farmer in Columbia county; and David A., a merchant and
  inspector of agriculture in Montour county.
  
      Amos Cox was reared on the home farm, attending the district school and
  assisting his father in such occupations as usually fall to the lot of a
  farmer's lad, remaining with his parents until twenty-eight years of age, when
  he took entire charge of the farm for his father, for two years, also renting
  and operating a place for himself for one year. At the end of this time his
  father-in-law, being very anxious for him to come to Sullivan county, he did so
  and purchased a farm in Cherry township, on which he lived until 1888. In that
  year he gave up all active business and removed to his present delightful home,
  which is in the suburbs of Dushore and which he had erected under his personal
  supervision. It contains all modern improvements and is in every way a model home.
  
      The marriage of Mr. Cox and Miss Hannah J. Zaner took place at Lewisburg,
  Pennsylvania, December 24, 1859, and of this union two children have been born:
  Elmira J., who married Frank D. Welever, a machinist for the Lehigh Valley
  Railroad Company, lives at Sayre, Pennsylvania, and has two children, Fred C.
  and Harry C.; and Eva Z., who married the Rev. S. S. Mumey, a United Evangelist
  clergyman at Espey, Pennsylvania, and they also have two children, Mildred H.
  and F. Euphemia. Mrs. Cox is a daughter of Lewis Zaner. Her mother's maiden name
  was Eve Chrisher. She was married to Lewis Zaner at the family home in Berwick,
  Columbia county, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Cox are worthy members of the United
  Evangelical church and he is a Republican in his political views.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
          Extracted from: 
              
            History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
            by Thomas J. Ingham
              
         Compendium of Biography
              
               The Lewis Publishing Company
            Chicago: 1899
  
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