SAMUEL HANSON COX.

"Upon earth there is not his like."

SAMUEL HANSON Cox was born August 25th, 1793. His father, James Cox, descended from the first settlers of Talbot county, Maryland, was born in Dover, Kent county, Delaware, December 28, 1766, and died in the city of Philadelphia, January 4, 1801, at the early age of thirty-four years. His mother, a native of Philadelphia, still lives in that city, in the eighty-eighth year of her age. They were members of the Society of Friends; were married February 13, 1791; removed from Philadelphia March 23, 1792, to Rahway, New Jersey, where, at Leesville, as now called, Samuel H. Cox was born. His father at that time was extensively engaged in mercantile pursuits in Pearl-street, New York, of the firm of Cox, Whitehead & Co. He was a man of energy, uprightness, and comprehensive views, esteemed and honored by all who knew him.

Of his father, Dr. Cox affectionately and truthfully says: “My father carefully educated me in the principles of Friends. He had a great reverence for the Holy Scriptures, a practical and conscientious regard for 'the Lord's day,' and boldness for the truth of religion among its adversaries; a nice sense of honor; uniform decision in the cause of virtue; an unfeigned charitableness towards all serious Christians; and an inflexible consistency of deportment. He was an example of universal temperance: tenderly humane and self-denying in his offices of beneficence, and distinguished as the friend of the black man in all his degradations. In these respects his eldest son may be allowed to pay a tearful, solemn, and most affectionate tribute to his memory!"