Cox, Jacob Dolson
b. 1828-10-27
d. 1111-11-11
Jacob Dolson Cox was an author, politician, lawyer, and soldier who served as United States Secretary of the Interior from 1869 to 1870. He was born in Montréal, Lower Canada, on 27 October 1828 and died on 4 August 1900 in Magnolia, Massachusetts.1
  • 1. Cox, Jacob Dolson, The Encyclopedia Americana [vol. 8] (New York: Encyclopedia Americana Corporation, 1918), 140. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t45q54s5z; James Rees Ewing, Public Services of Jacob Dolson Cox […] (Washington: Neale Publishing Company, 1902). http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t3bz6b126; Death List of a Day, New York Times, 5 August 1900, 7.
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