Robert Franklin Cox

Brief Life History of Robert Franklin

When Robert Franklin Cox was born on 30 June 1889, in Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Michael Thomas Cox, was 50 and his mother, Frances Lucinda Jane Martin, was 41. He married Bessie Frances Taylor on 6 October 1916, in Bryan, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Colbert Township, Bryan, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Tarrant, Texas, United States in 1920. He died on 12 August 1957, in Independence, Montgomery, Kansas, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Independence, Montgomery, Kansas, United States.

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Robert Franklin Cox
1889–1957
Bessie Frances Taylor
1896–1974
Marriage: 6 October 1916
Cox
1918–
James Levander Cox
1919–1991

Sources (11)

  • Robert Cox, "United States, Census, 1920"
  • R F Cox, "Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1936"
  • Robert Cox, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"

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World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company

Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.

1907 · Not for profit elections

The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Cocke and Cook , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.

Irish (Ulster): mistranslation of Mac Con Coille (‘son of Cú Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’), as if formed with coileach ‘cock, rooster’.

Dutch and Flemish: genitivized patronymic from the personal name Cock, a vernacular short form of Cornelius .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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