Cox, Charles 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 655, Farmers' Township
Charles Cox, son of Amos Cox, was born in Schuylkill Co., Pa., July 19, 1849; has been a railroad man for over 3 years, also engaged in farming for 5 years. He was apprenticed to Benjamin Haffer, a shoemaker, when but 12 years old; he remained with Haffer nearly 4 years, and came to McDonough Co., Ill., in 1870, where he engaged in farming. In 1873 he established a shoe-shop in Good Hope, which he carried on successfully for three years, when he removed to Table Grove, where he has had greater success than he had anticipated. He was married Oct. 7, 1875, to Sarah Porter, who has borne him 2 children, John and Amos. Mrs. Cox's father, Samuel Porter, was one of the pioneers of Canton, where he still lives.