OBITUAIIIF.S. AMKIMCAN. < 'ousox COXE.) 





year- lie had been deeply interested in a project for 



iishing a transatlantic steamship line to run 



1'roin Fort Pond Hay. m-ar tin- eastern end of Long 



Island, to Milford Haven, Wales. His summer 



e in Xew Ilampsliiiv consisted of 2o,000 acres 



around Newport, all mountain and valley, and was 



the largest punt- preserve in the United >' 



The last large project in which lie was rim-aged was 



the settlement o!' nearly 1 .()()( I Italians on a tract of 



about 10.000 acres in Arkansas in a bend of the 



Mississippi river. TOO of whom reached the place in 



nbcr. 1 s !'"). He was killed by being thrown 



from his carriage. 



COI-MMI. Hiram, physician, born in Plymouth 

 Township. Pa.. -H: died there March 4, 



l-'.ni. lie was graduated at the University of 

 Pennsylvania in 1S28-, and from that year till within 

 a year' of his death was engaged in the practice of 

 medicine. Prior to the civil war he was an active 

 abolitionist, and his life was frequently in peril be- 

 of his kindness and aid to fugitive slaves. 

 He was the originator of the ice treatment for scar- 

 let fever and diphtheria, and the pioneer in blood- 

 letting for pneumonia. Dr. Corson was the author 

 of several contributions to medical literature, par- 

 ticularly on scarlet fever and diphtheria. 



Cox, Georsre I)., journalist, born in Burlington, 

 X. J.. in 1*43: died in Philadelphia. Pa.. Sept. 30, 

 IVM;. He removed to Philadelphia in boyhood; 

 became a dramatic critic and editor, serving as 

 such on most of the principal newspapers of that 

 city: and for many years was employed as French 

 translator by a local publishing house. His most 

 notable work was " Edmond Dantes." which for a 

 long time was generally believed to have been Du- 



wn sequel to his "Count of Monte Cristo." 

 Coxe. Arthur Cleveland, second bishop of the 

 Protestant Episcopal Church in the diocese of 

 Western New York, born in Mendham. X. J.. May 

 10, 1818; died at Clifton Springs. X. Y., July 20, 

 I^'.H;. lie was the sun of the Rev. Samuel Hanson 

 Cox. a Presbyterian clergyman, of Brooklyn, X. Y. 



When a young 

 man he returned 

 to an older spell- 

 ing of the family 

 name. The Cox 

 family removed to 

 Xew York city in 

 1820. and in 1838 

 the son was grad- 

 uated with honor 

 at the University 

 of the City of Xew 

 York. The influ- 

 ence of some of his 

 mother's relatives 

 had attracted him 

 to the Episcopal 

 Church, much to 



the dissatisfaction of his father; and finding that 

 he could not conscientiously become a minister 

 in his father's communion, he entered the Gen- 

 eral Theological Seminary, and was graduated in 

 1*41. His literary tastes disclosed themselves 

 early, and before his college days were over he 

 had published a volume of verse "Advent: A 

 Mystery" < 1*37 1 and two others. " Athwold : A 

 Romaunt " and "Saint Jonathan: The Lay of a 

 Scald." followed in IS:}*. The three books are in 

 no wav remarkable, but they show the early flower- 

 ing of the poetic nature so strongly characteristic 

 of Bishop Coxe throughout life. He possessed the 

 soul of a poet, and under other circumstances it 

 might have found more enduring expression. 

 " Athanasion. and Other Poems " was published in 

 1842, " Halloween " in 144, and " Saul : A Mystery " 



in 1*4~>. In ]^\~>. al-o. he published the volume by 

 which he is likely to be held longest in remem- 

 brance the widely known and much-loved "Chris- 

 tian Ballads." They display many of the be.-t 

 features of devotional Terse, and are a distinct ad- 

 vance upon anything previously published by their 

 author, and. while deeply penetrated with the reli- 

 gious spirit, are controlled by a delicate literary 

 sense not always noted in religious lyrics. They 

 are. moreover, tender in expreion and musical 

 throughout. Bishop Coxe practically abainl 

 the field of poesy soon after this, and "The Ladye 

 Chace " (1*77'. a new edition of Halloween.'' with 

 "Lays Meditative and Devoiional" in 1869. and 

 "The Paschal Poems" (iss'.i, include the remainder 

 of his poems. He was ordained deacon Jni: 

 1*41. and at once took el,,- Ann's Church. 



Morrisania. X. Y. Un Sept. 2."). 1^42. he was ad- 

 mitted to priest's orders, and fr< m ls43 to is 34 was 

 rector of St. John's Church, at Hartford. Ccnn. In 

 the latter year he became rector of Grace Church at 

 Baltimore, exchanging that office for the rectorship 

 of Calvary Church. New York city, in 1863. He 

 had already risen to distinction in the Church at 

 large, and having declined the bishopric of Texas 

 in 1856, accepted that of Western Xew York in 

 ]M>4. being consecrated assistant bishop at Geneva. 

 Jan. 4. 1M'.">. .-ucceeding Bishop De Lancey en that 

 prelate's death, on April 5 following. From his 

 father he inherited an intense spirit of theolog- 

 ical combativeness, which, though not infused with 

 bitterness to any great extent, still sufficed to make 

 the path of controversy sufficiently thorny for his 

 opponents. In the earlier days of his ministry he 

 had been classed with extreme High Churchmen. 

 but in later life his attitude did not appear to so 

 place him. and he even clung to one or two matters 

 of detail supposed to characterize the opposite 

 party. In point of fact, however, there was never 

 any material change in his position, while in the 

 Church itself there were very marked changes dur- 

 ing his long career. His early sympathies had lain 

 with the Oxford movement of his young manhood ; 

 but after the secession of Newman he no longer 

 sympathized with it as a party, though still recog- 

 nizing the truth of many of its positions positions 

 which the entire Church practically occupies at the 

 piv-ent nn merit. His own standpoint is well shown 

 in "The Criterion," which he published in 1866. 

 The courage of his convictions was something which 

 he never lacked at any period of his career. In 

 1850 he visited at Freiburg the noted divine Von 

 Hirscher. who preceded Dr. Dollinger in the Old 

 Catholic movement, and he issued a translation of 

 Yon Hirscher's "Sympathies of the Continent, or 

 Proposals for a Xew Reformation.'' From that 

 period he was always a stanch advocate of that 

 movement and. as a natural consequence, an equally 

 stanch foe of the Roman Church. In neither of 

 these attitudes did he carry with him the sympathies 

 of the entire Church, though the sincerity of his 

 purposes was never doubted, and to many minds his 

 ultra-Protestant vehemence expressed toward the 

 Roman communion conveyed a far from pleasant 

 impression of the .prelate's capacity for tolerance 

 and Christian charity. In 1867-'6* he published a 

 series of papers on "Anglican Orders" in the 

 "Union Chretienne" at Paris, and in 1869 "An 

 Open Letter to Pius IX "on the occasion of the 

 convoking of the Vatican Council a letter which 

 was widely circulated in several languages, and cer- 

 tainly did not tend to the harmonizing of Christen- 

 dom.. He returned to the attack in 1872 with 

 [/Episcopal de I'occident." and again in 1874 with 

 "Catholics and Roman Catholics." He early took 

 firm ground against any revision of the Scriptures, 

 his " Apology for the Christian Bible ? ' being issued 



