COX, Isaac Joslin, American educator : b. West Creek, Ocean County, N. J., 19 Nov. 1873. He was educated at Dartmouth College and at the universities of Texas, Chicago, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Between 1896 and 1906 he was instructor and vice-principal at San Antonio Academy and instructor in history at the Uni versity of Cincinnati, where he was afterward assistant professor. In 1911-12 he was Shaw lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. He has published Journeys of La Salle and his Companions> (2 vols., 1905) ; (The Early Ex ploration of Louisiana) (1906) ; (The Indian as a Diplomatic Factor in the History of the Old Northwest' (1910). He is actively engaged on a series of frontier studies covering the early relations between Spain and the United States.
COX, Jacob Dolson, American statesman and soldier: b. Montreal, 27 Oct. 1828; d. Mag nolia, Mass.., 4 Aug. 1900. He was graduated at 'Oberlin in 1851 and became a lawyer ; but upon the outbreak of the Civil War was made brigadier-general of Ohio Volunteers. In 1862 he became major-general of the United States Volunteers, and in 1864 commanded a division at Nashville. At the close of the war he re signed his command and entered the practice of law in Cincinnati. He was elected governor of Ohio in 1865, and in 1869 became Secretary of the Interior in President Grant's Cabinet until 1870 when he resigned. In 1873 he became presi dent of the Wabash Railroad and removed to Toledo to take charge of his new work. He was representative to Congress from October 1877 to March 1879. The University of North Carolina and Davison University, Ohio, conferred on him the degree of LL.D. He has published 'Atlanta) ; (The March to the Sea' ; (Franklin and Nash ville' ; Battle of Franklin.' COX, James M., American journalist and statesman: b. Jacksonburg, Ohio, 31 March 1870. After a public-school education he was employed in a printer's office, taught a country school, became a newspaper reporter, and was for a time on the editorial staff of the Cincinnati Enquirer. In 1898 he became proprietor of the Dayton Daily News and in 1903 of the Spring field Press-Republic, thus forming the News League of Ohio. From 1909 to 1913 he was a member of Congress. He was governor of Ohio from 1913 to 1915.
COX, Kenyon, American painter: b. War ren, Ohio, 27 Oct. 1856. He studied in Cincin nati and in Pennsylvania Academy of Design and, from 1877 to 1882, in Paris under Caro Ins Duran and J. L. GerOme. In 1883 he settled
in New York and painted subjects of many kinds, including portrait, landscape and ideal fig ure compositions, and also illustrated and wrote on art subjects. Since 1892 Cox has been known principally as a mural-painter, having executed important decorative work in the Library of Congress at Washington, D. C., in the State capitols of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin, in county courthouses at Newark, N. J., and Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in the Public Library at Winona, Minn., and in other public buildings. He modeled a statue of °Greek Science)) for the front of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. He has received various awards and medals, including the Medal of Honor for Mural Painting of the Architectural League in 1910. He is represented by pictures in the National Gallery of Art at Washington, D. C., the Metro politan Museum, New York, the Cincinnati Mu seum and other public collections. He received the degree of M.A. from Yale University and of Litt.D. from Oberlin and Dartmouth. He was a member of the Society of American Artists from 1882, becoming its vice-president at the time of its union with the National Academy of Design in 1906. He is also a mem ber of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Academy of Design, the Architectural League of New York and presi dent of the Mural Painters. He has published six volumes of criticism on art, (Old Masters and New> ; (Painters and Sculptors) ; 'The Classic Point of View' ; (Artist and Public> ; 'Winslow Homer' ; and (Concerning Painting) (1917), besides numerous reviews and maga zine articles.
COX, Louise Howland King, American artist : b. San Francisco, Cal., 23 June 1865. She was a pupil of the National Academy of Design, and of Kenyon Cox (q.v.), whom she married 30 June 1892. In 1896 she won the third Hall garten prize of the National Academy of Design, and in 1900 was awarded a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition. She was also awarded a silver medal at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo 1901; the Julia A. Shaw Memorial Prize, Society of America Artists, 1903; and a silver medal, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis 1904. She was a member of the Society of American Artists before its union with The National Academy of Design and is an Associate of the Academy. She is repre sented in the National Gallery of Art (Evans Gift), Washington, D. C.