FRANCIS COX, Sr. - Biography

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This biography appears on page 670 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

FRANCIS COX, Sr., farmer, Sec. 15 ; P. O. Kansasville; was born in
County Fermanagh, Ireland, in 1809, and went thence to New Jersey. He
married, in New York, in 1836, Rose Nolan, of Fermanagh County, Ireland;
they had six children- James, Ellen, John, Margaret, Ann Jane and
Francis. He came to Milwaukee in May, 1842, and took up eighty acres
Government land in Section 15, Dover; lived in Milwaukee till September;
brought his family and located in Dover, and took up eighty acres more
Government land in Section 15; in 1854, he purchased 120 acres, in 1855,
eighty acres improved lands in same section, making 360 acres in all.
His eldest son, James, married, in Dover, Feb. 13, 1862, Bridget Lavin,
daughter of Martin Lavin, a resident of Dover, and has eight children;
Ellen married Philip McManus; Margaret married Charles McManus; Ann Jane
is single, and lives in Racine; John married, in Waterford, in November,
1864, Catherine McManus, and has three children; Francis married, Nov.
15, 1869, in Dover, Julia McManus, and has six children; they all reside
in Dover, and are members of St. Mary's Church, except Ann Jane.