Cox, Caleb bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 910, Vermont Township
Caleb Cox, deceased, was a merchant and banker of Vermont. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1833, the 3d son of Jesse and Therdisa Cox, who settled in this Co. in 1837, in Vermont tp.; he received a liberal education, and Oct. 18, 1860, married Anna Wilkinson, of Pennsylvania, whose parents emigrated to this county about 23 years ago. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in Co. F, 84th Ill. Inf., was first elected Captain and afterward Major, and served faithfully until the war closed. Was in many battles, notably that of Murfreesboro. He then returned to Vermont, bought property, and in 1868 he became an equal partner with Joab Mershon and organized the Vermont Bank. In 1871 he erected one of the finest residences in the county. In 1866 he was elected to the Legislature, the first Republican representative form Fulton Co., He was an energetic business man, very popular, but while yet in the prime of life he took sick and died, leaving a widow and 7 children, - Wilmer, Theodore, Mary, Olive, Edward, Howard and Sherman.