Leslie Hutchinson Cox

Brief Life History of Leslie Hutchinson

When Leslie Hutchinson Cox was born on 5 November 1892, in Bordentown Township, Burlington, New Jersey, United States, his father, Milton R. Cox, was 33 and his mother, Anna Hutchinson, was 30. He lived in Bordentown, Burlington, New Jersey, United States for about 10 years. He died in 1918, at the age of 26.

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Family Time Line

Milton R. Cox
1859–1922
Anna Hutchinson
1863–
Gershom Milton Cox
1885–1949
Leslie Hutchinson Cox
1892–1918
Howard Lincoln Cox
1898–1981

Sources (3)

  • Leslie C Cox in household of Milton R Cox, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Lesley H. Cox, "New Jersey, Births and Christenings, 1660-1980"
  • Leslie H Cox in household of Milton R Cox, "United States Census, 1910"

World Events (8)

1894

Mary Philbrook was the first woman in New Jersey to become a lawyer. She had applied for admission to the New Jersey Bar in 1894, but was rejected because the New Jersey Court stated that women were not vested with any right to be attorneys. Mary lobbied with the Jersey City Woman's Club for an update to the law, which was passed in 1895 and allowed women to become lawyers. Mary Philbrook was the first woman to be admitted after the law change.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

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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