When Edwin Marion Cox was born on 2 August 1848, in Silver Creek Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Frederick Walter Cox, was 36 and his mother, Emeline Sally Whiting, was 31. He married Jane McEwan Reid on 3 January 1870, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1860. He registered for military service in 1867. He died on 29 March 1932, in Orangeville, Emery, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Orangeville Cemetery, Orangeville, Emery, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, Utah Territory, United States 1851: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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