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SOURCE: History of St. Clair County, Mich.
        A. T. Andreas & Co., Chicago - 1883

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         CAPT. JAMES COX, of the barge Susan Ward, is a son of CAPT. JAMES
      COX and EMILY COX, who were among the early settlers of Port Huron;
      his father died November 17, 1864, and his mother died June 21, 1882.
      CAPT. COX was born in Port Huron, September 22, 1849; he began
      sailing when only eleven years old with his father, on the scow "Sea
      Foam."  When only seventeen years of age he sailed as Captain of the
      "Uncle Sam," and since then has sailed the "Adain," the "Wyoming,"
      the "Morgan," the "Vision," the steam barge "Mary Mills" and the
      "City of Port Huron," sailed the "Alpena" five years, and for the
      past two years has sailed the barge "Susan Ward" for the Oscoda Salt
      & Lumber Co.  CAPT. COX married Miss JOSEPHINE PALMER, a native of
      New York State, December 25, 1870; they have two children - JENNIE
      and JAMES, and have lost four children.
      
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 Transcriber's Note:
      Three years after his biography was written Capt. James Cox was
      lost during a November storm when his vessel, the schooner barge
      Menekaunee, was wrecked at Frankfort, MI.  You can read about this
      shipwreck at:
      http://www.us-data.org/mi/glm/shipwrecks/menekaunee-1886.txt
      

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