William Cox Biography, Charles Mix County, SD

	This biography is taken from the "Standard Atlas of Charles Mix 
	County" (1906),published by Geo. A. Ogle & Co. Page 53

	Transcribed by Joy Fisher, sdgenweb@yahoo.com and may be copied for 
	non-profit purposes. All other rights reserved.

William Cox came to Charles Mix county in 1860 or 1861. He had been in 
the employ of Brughier at Sioux Point and later at Yankton Agency. For a 
while he carried mail. He was a carpenter and surveyor and worked at 
both. He did much of the work in surveying this county, both under 
direct contracts of his own and in the service of others who held 
contracts. His last work of this kind was to subdivide the sections and 
establish quarter and sixteenth corners on the reservation prepartory to 
the Indians taking their allotments. He was a right young man with a 
good education but made poor use of his abilities. He never married. He 
is now living with Frank Shuck in Lyman county, a charge of Charles Mix.