The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Cox, Jacob Dolson
COX, Jacob Dolson, American statesman
and soldier: b. Montreal, 27 Oct. 1828; d.
Magnolia, Mass., 4 Aug. 1900. He was graduated
at Oberlin in 1851 and became a lawyer; but
upon the outbreak of the Civil War was made
brigadier-general of Ohio Volunteers. In 1862
he became major-general of the United States
Volunteers, and in 1864 commanded a division
at Nashville. At the close of the war he
resigned his command and entered the practice of
law in Cincinnati. He was elected governor of
Ohio in 1865, and in 1869 became Secretary of
the Interior in President Grant's Cabinet until
1870 when he resigned. In 1873 he became president
of the Wabash Railroad and removed to
Toledo to take charge of his new work. He was
representative to Congress from October 1877 to
March 1879. The University of North Carolina
and Davison University, Ohio, conferred on him
the degree of LL.D. He has published ‘Atlanta’;
‘The March to the Sea’; ‘Franklin and
Nashville’; ‘The Battle of Franklin.’