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Jacob Dolson Cox (Trumbull County, Ohio, attorney, politician, and soldier.)

b. 1828-10-27 d. 1900

Trumbull County, Ohio, attorney, politician, and soldier. Native of Montreal, Lower Canada. Son of Jacob Dolson Cox and Thedia Redelia Kenyon Cox. Married to Helen Clarissa Finney Cochran Cox in Lorain County, Ohio, on November 26, 1849. Father of Helen Finney Cox Black, Jacob Dolson Cox, D.C. Cox, Kenyon Cox, Charles Norton Cox, and Brewster Cox. Tinner in Lorain County, Ohio, in 1850. Graduate of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio in 1851. Admitted to the Ohio Bar Association in 1853. Attorney in Trumbull County, Ohio in 1860. Served in the Ohio State Senate as a Republican from 1860 to 1862. Served in the U.S. Army as Brigadier General of Volunteers and Major General of Volunteers from May 17, 1861 through December 31, 1865. Served as a division commander in the Union Army's IX and XXIII Corps.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Lorrain County, Russia, p. 42.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Trumbull County, Warren Village, p. 8.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, District of Columbia, Washington/Ward 5, p. 73A.

Journal of the Senate of the State of OhioVol. LVI (Columbus,OH: Richard Nevins, 1860), 3.

Ohio Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Lucas County Marriages, Film #000447523, p. 360.

"The Senatorial Convention," Western Reserve Chronicle(Warren, OH), August 24, 1859, p. 2.

Francis B Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 vol. 1, pt. II (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903), 331.

Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commander(Baton Rogue: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 97-98.

"Cox, Jacob Dolson," Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. I, eds. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (New York: Appleton, 1889), 758.

"Jacob Dolson Cox (1828-1900)," Find A Grave, Memorial #4443, accessed July 28, 2022,

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4443.

"Brewster Cox (1861-1861)," Find A Grave, Memorial #78913005, accessed July 28, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78913005.

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Cox, Jacob Dolson. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208872 (November 12, 2026).

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