SAMUEL

See also:

• HANSON, SIR RICHARD DAVIES (1805–1876)

HANSON

See also:

• COX, DAVID (1783-1859)
• COX, JACOB DOLSON (1828-1900)
• COX, KENYON (1856– )
• COX, RICHARD (I3oo ?–1581)
• COX, SAMUEL (1826–1893)
• SAMUEL HANSON COX (1793-1880)
• COX, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM (1827-1902)

COX (1793-1880)  , American Presbyterian divine, was born at Rahway, N.J., on the 25th of August 1793, of Quaker stock . He was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Mendham, N.J., in 1817-1821, and of two churches in New York from 1821 to 1834 . He helped to found the University of the City of New York, and from 1834 to 1837 was professor of pastoral 12 theology at Auburn . The next seventeen years were passed in active ministry at Brooklyn, whence in 1854, owing to a throat affection, he removed to Owego, N.Y . He died at Bronxville, N.Y., on the 2nd of October 1880 . Cox was a fine orator, and a speech made in Exeter Hall in 1833, in which he put the responsibility for slavery in America on the British government, made a great impression . It was he who described the appellation D.D. as a couple of " semi-lunar fardels." His son, ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE (1818-1896), who changed the spelling of the family name, graduated at the University of the City of New York in 1838 and at the General Theological Seminary in 1841 . He was rector of St John's Church, Hartford, in 1843–1854, of Grace Church, Baltimore, in 1854–1863, and of Calvary Church, New York City, in 1863 . In 1863 he became assistant bishop and in 1865 bishop of western New York . He was strongly influenced by the Oxford Movement . Bishop Coxe wrote spirited defences of Anglican orders and published several volumes of verse, notably Christian Ballads (1845) .