Brief Life History of William Matthew
When William Matthew Cox was born on 25 May 1873, in Texas, United States, his father, Edwin Robert Cox, was 29 and his mother, Margaret Cordelia Parker, was 29. He had at least 4 sons and 5 daughters with Susie Mellissia Sport. He lived in Justice Precinct 1, Palo Pinto, Texas, United States in 1910 and Nolan, Texas, United States in 1920. He died on 11 January 1939, in Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas, United States, at the age of 65.
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- William M Cox, "United States Census, 1930"
- William Cox, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
- Will Cox in entry for Anna Will Cox, "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1876 · Segregation Laws Are Passed
A new state constitution was passed in 1876, announcing the segregation of schools.
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.
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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