Dr. Abraham Liddon Cox

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Dr. Abraham Liddon Cox

Birthdate:
Birthplace: New York City, New York County, New York, United States
Death: July 28, 1864 (64)
Lookout Mountain, Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States (Dysentery)
Place of Burial: 1200 Bailey Avenue, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, 37404, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of James Cox and Elizabeth Cox
Husband of Abby Ann Cox
Father of Mary Newbold Cox; Elizabeth Cox; James Cox; John Newbold Cox; Abraham Liddon Cox, II and 2 others
Brother of Samuel Hanson Cox; James Cox; Susanna Hanson Cox; Mary Liddon Cox; Susanna Hunter and 3 others

Occupation: Surgeon
Managed by: Aaron Furtado Baldwin
Last Updated:
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Immediate Family

About Dr. Abraham Liddon Cox

Dr. Abraham Liddon Cox

Former professor of surgery at the New York Medical College, Dr. Abraham Liddon Cox resigned his New York practice at the opening of the American Civil War and became the Surgeon-in-Chief, 1st Division, 20th Corps, of the Army of the Cumberland. “Hastened by the labor and exposure incident to the active campaigns of that army,” Cox died of dysentery at Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, in July, 1864.

Dr. Cox was also a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society and a member of its executive committee.

NOTE: He was the brother of the Rev. Samuel Hanson Cox, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, New York

Name: Abraham L Cox
Event Type: Marriage Intention (Marriage)
Marriage Date 7 Jan 1825
Marriage Date on Image 7 1825
Marriage Place: Bucks, Pennsylvania
Residence Date on Image: First
Residence Place: Bucks, Pennsylvania
Spouse: Abby Ann Newbold
Monthly Meeting: Middletown Monthly Meeting
Historical Meeting Data
Yearly Meeting: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Meeting State Pennsylvania
Meeting County: Bucks

U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935

  • The Reverend Henry Miller Cox, The Cox Family in America, New York, 1912, pp. 92-93; Life, I, 398, 401-402, 407, 413, 415, 483
  • The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume II: a House Dividing Against Itself, 1836-1840 by By William Lloyd Garrison, 1971
  • The Medical and Surgical Reporter, Volume 12, 1865, page 84
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Dr. Abraham Liddon Cox's Timeline

1799
November 23, 1799
New York City, New York County, New York, United States
1825
December 18, 1825
New York, New York County, New York, United States
1828
January 15, 1828
1831
March 18, 1831
1833
October 15, 1833
New York City, New York County, New York, United States
1836
April 30, 1836
New York, New York County, New York, United States
1839
February 14, 1839
New York, New York County, New York, United States
1844
June 9, 1844
New York, New York, United States
1864
July 28, 1864
Age 64
Lookout Mountain, Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States