Dr. Abraham Liddon Cox

Dr. Abraham Liddon Cox

• Find A Grave Memorial ID # 2977596
• Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University
• Autograph Letter Signed: Washington, D.C., to Abby Ann Newbold Cox, New York, New York

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