Sullivan-Montour-Philadelphia County PA Archives Biographies.....Cox, John B. 1826 - 1892
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
  JOHN B. COX, who was born in Derry township, Montour county, Pennsylvania, April
  3, 1826, was a son of David and Mary (Buck) Cox, natives of the state of New
  Jersey, and of Berks county, Pennsylvania, respectively. He was a brother of
  Amos Cox, in whose sketch on another page is given some of the family history.
  
      Mr. Cox, during his early days, assisted his father upon the farm and in his
  blacksmith shop, but he was a studious lad whose ambitions led him to a
  different field of work, and when eighteen years of age he began to prepare
  himself for the ministry. Unfortunately his health failed him, and he was
  obliged to give up all his hopes and prospects in that direction and to turn his
  attention to some means of making a livelihood. He went to Philadelphia, where
  he learned the art of photography, and for many years followed that business
  with success. In 1862 he came to Sullivan county, locating in Dushore, where he
  combined the business of photography with those of black-smithing, wagon-making
  and undertaking. In 1874 he removed to the farm in Cherry township, where he
  spent the remainder of his life. He was well known and highly esteemed in his
  community, was a court officer for twelve years and justice of the peace four
  years. It was while holding the latter office that his death took place, on
  October 13, 1892.
  
      Mr. Cox was twice married, his first wife being Miss Mary A. Eisenbrown, by
  whom he had six children, of whom five died in infancy; the remaining daughter,
  Mary L., married Bigler Andy and lives in Bernice, Pennsylvania. For his second
  wife Mr. Cox married Miss Hannah Heppler, to whom he was united March 22, 1862,
  in Montour county, Pennsylvania, by Rev. John Thomas. Of this union the
  following children were born: David R., born March 12, 1863, married Miss Emma
  Kinsley, and is farming in Cherry township; Levi N., born July 26, 1864, married
  Miss Jennie Baker, and is a track-layer in a mine at Bernice; A. Lincoln, born
  September 18, 1866, is unmarried, and lives with his mother; Rev. William B.,
  born May 9, 1863, is a United Evangelical minister at Newberry (Williamsport),
  Pennsylvania, his wife being formerly Miss Anna Farley, of Buffalo Valley, Union
  county, Pennsylvania.
  
      Mrs. Hannah Cox was born September 20, 1841, a daughter of George and Hannah
  (Kruser) Heppler, who were farmers in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania. Her
  father died April 15, 1847, aged about thirty-five years, and the mother
  February 28, 1857, aged fifty-two years. They were members of the Lutheran
  church. Their family consisted of the following children, Catherine, widow of
  John Burrier, lives in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania; Andy, who married Eliza
  Daniels, and died at the age of thirty-five years; Isaac, who is a merchant and
  farmer, and who formerly kept a hotel, and is living at Gratztown, Pennsylvania;
  he has been twice married; Polly, who died when six years old; Hannah, the wife
  of our subject; Elizabeth, who is the wife of David Willard, of Uniontown,
  Pennsylvania; George, who has been twice married, and whose present home is at
  Rocktown, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania; John, who married Miss Harriet
  Keller, resided in Ashland, Schuylkill county, where she died in 1888; he now
  makes his home at Springtown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. The paternal
  grandparents of Mrs. Cox were Stoeffel and Catherine (Wagner) Heppler, of
  Schuylkill county, where their entire lives were spent.
  
  
  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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