"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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JAMES F. COX, attorney at law, was born in Monroe County, Ind., May 15,
1852, and is a son of Rev. J. Bridgeman and Martha (Mosier) Cox. He was
reared on a farm, attended the county schools, and when fifteen began his
own support, and divided his time between labor and schooling. At
nineteen, he became a teacher, and attended the State University for three
years, after which he taught during winter and studied law during summer.
He became an earnest politician before he became a voter. He cast his first
vote, in pride, for Horace Greeley, and came before the Democratic
convention as a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney of the Fifteenth Circuit.
He was defeated meagerly after being nominated over three prominent
competitors from this county by a coalition of Greene and Owen Counties, the
latter receiving the Judge and the former the Prosecutor. In 1878, he was
made Deputy County Prosecuting Attorney, as which he served eighteen months
before resigning to matriculate in the law Department of the University of
Michigan from which he graduate March 24, 1880, and returned to this county
and resumed practice. August 1, 1877, he married, in Brown County, Ind.,
Miss Mattie E. Armstrong, who died February 14, 1880, leaving one child--Leon J.
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