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SAMUEL HANSON COX (1793-1880)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 354 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMUEL See also:HANSON See also:COX (1793-1880)  , See also:American Presbyterian divine, was See also:born at See also:Rahway, N.J., on the 25th of See also:August 1793, of Quaker stock . He was pastor of the Presbyterian See also:church at Mendham, N.J., in 1817-1821, and of two churches in New See also:York from 1821 to 1834 . He helped to found the University of the See also:City of New York, and from 1834 to 1837 was See also:professor of See also:pastoral 12 See also:theology at See also:Auburn . The next seventeen years were passed in active See also:ministry at See also:Brooklyn, whence in 1854, owing to a See also:throat See also:affection, he removed to See also:Owego, N.Y . He died at Bronxville, N.Y., on the 2nd of See also:October 1880 . See also:Cox was a See also:fine orator, and a speech made in See also:Exeter See also:Hall in 1833, in which he put the responsibility for See also:slavery in See also:America on the See also:British See also:government, made a See also:great impression . It was he who described the appellation D.D. as a couple of " semi-lunar fardels." His son, See also:ARTHUR See also:CLEVELAND See also:COXE (1818-1896), who changed the spelling of the See also:family name, graduated at the University of the City of New York in 1838 and at the See also:General Theological See also:Seminary in 1841 . He was See also:rector of St See also:John's Church, See also:Hartford, in 1843–1854, of See also:Grace Church, See also:Baltimore, in 1854–1863, and of See also:Calvary Church, New York City, in 1863 . In 1863 he became assistant See also:bishop and in 1865 bishop of western New York . He was strongly influenced by the See also:Oxford See also:Movement . Bishop Coxe wrote spirited defences of See also:Anglican orders and published several volumes of See also:verse, notably See also:Christian See also:Ballads (1845) .

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