The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Cox, Isaac Joslin
COX, Isaac Joslin, American educator: b.
West Creek, Ocean County, N. J., 19 Nov. 1873.
He was educated at Dartmouth College and at
the universities of Texas, Chicago, Wisconsin,
and Pennsylvania. Between 1896 and 1906 he
was instructor and vice-principle at San Antonio
Academy and instructor in history at the
University of Cincinnati, where he was afterward
assistant professor. In 1911-12 he was Shaw
lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. He has
published ‘The Journey of La Salle and his
Companions’ (2 vols., 1905); ‘The Early
Exploration of Louisiana’ (1906); ‘The Indian
as a Diplomatic Factor in the History of the
Old Northwest’ (1910). He is actively engaged
on a series of frontier studies covering the early
relations between Spain and the United States.