Trumbull County's Generals
Biographical data from:
Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen,her Generals, and Soldiers
by Whitelaw Reid
Moore,Wilstach & Baldwin
Cincinnati,1868

Obituaries,Western Reserve Chronicle


Major General Jacob Dolson Cox
Born October 27, 1828 Montreal Canada
Died August 4, 1900, Glouchester, MA
Buried:Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio

  • resident of Warren, Ohio 1853 - 1866
  • Lawyer, Superintendant,Warren Schools
  • 1859 - 1861:Ohio State Senator
  • April 1861:Brigadier General, Ohio Volunteers
  • October 1862:Major General
  • Spring 1863:Commander, Department of the Ohio
  • December,1863: Commander, 23rd Army Corp
  • 1866 - 1869:Governor, State of Ohio
  • 1869 - 1870: U.S. Secretary of the Interior
  • 1877 -1879:U.S. Representative from Ohio
  • 1881 - 1897:Dean, Cincinnati University School of Law
  • 1884 - 1889: President, University of Cincinnati


    • photograph courtesy MA Commandary, MOLLUS