ULYSSES ORANGE COX. 
(1N MEMORIAM.) 
BARTON WARREN E\VERMANN. 
Ulysses Orange Cox was born on a farm near Farmland, Randolph 
County, Indiana, September 29, 1864. He died at Denver, Colorado, August 
25, 1920. 
As a boy living in the country, in daily contact with nature, it was but 
natural that a real love for, and an interest in, animals and plants should 
soon possess him. In this respect this boy was not particularly different 
from other boys who have had the great good fortune to have been brought 
up in the country; for there. Nature is calling, ever calling, and rare in- 
deed is the country boy who fails to hear the call and give heed to it. He 
can always see the sky, the clouds and the stars; he sees and feels the soil, 
and digs into it; he wanders through the open woods and the dark forests ; 
he learns to know the streams, the hills, the growing and ripening crops, 
and the wild animals about him; daily, even hourly, he sees the birds, the 
insects, and the shy folk that abound for him who would be their friend ; 
the domestic animals on the farm he learns to know intimately; and he 
learns the sweet sounds which wind and running water, and birds and in- 
sects make when he is hunting, fishing, or merely roaming in the woods and 
fields or along the streams. This is the real productive school in which all 
country boys are enrolled; the school in which more knowledge is acquired 
than in all the after years. 
Ulysses Cox early began the serious study of animals and plants. His 
first published contribution to science was “A List of the Birds of Randolph 
County, Ind.,” which appeared in the Ornithologist and Odlogist. While 
yet in his teens he began teaching in the country schools of his native 
county. He organized the high school at Farmland and was its superinten- 
dent. His experience in these schools led him to suggest a system of con- 
solidated schools, since put into effect by Superintendent Driver with ex- 
cellent results. In 1884 he graduated from Bryant’s Commercial School at 
Indianapolis. He completed the Teacher’s Training course at the Central 
Normal College the next year and in the same year he entered the Indiana 
State Normal School, from which he was graduated in 1889. 
After teaching two years in the Farmland high school and assisting in the 
spring terms in the Indiana State Normal School, he was elected head of 
the department of general science in the State Normal School at Mankato, 
Minnesota, where he made an enviable record as an organizer and inspiring 
teacher. He organized and adequately equipped the chemical and physio- 
logical laboratories in that institution. 
Mr. Cox took leave from his teaching duties in 1897 and entered Indiana 
University, from which institution he was graduated in 1900 with the de- 
gree of A. B. in zoology, his time in the University alternating with teaching 
during part of the year. He received the degree of A. M, in 1902, 
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