- Samuel Hanson Cox
Samuel Hanson Cox (
August 25 ,1793 –October 2 ,1880 ) was an AmericanPresbyterian minister and a leadingabolitionist .Cox was born in
Rahway, New Jersey , of Quaker stock. He was pastor of the Presbyterian church atMendham, New Jersey , in 1817-1821, and of two churches inNew York City from 1821 to 1834. Due to hisanti-slavery sentiments, he was mobbed, and his house and church were sacked. He helped to found theUniversity of the City of New York , and from 1834 to 1837 was professor of pastoral theology at Auburn.Cox was a fine orator, and a speech made in Exeter Hall in 1833, in which he put the responsibility for
slavery in America on the British government, made a great impression. It was he who described the appellation DD as a couple of "semi-lunar fardels".The next seventeen years were passed as pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn , where he also served as Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the Union Theological Seminary, and as a leader of the "New School" Presbyterians. In 1854, owing to a throat infection, he removed toOwego, New York . He died atBronxville, New York , six years later.His son,
Arthur Cleveland Coxe , became bishop of western New York, and another son,Samuel Hanson Coxe , was an Episcopal minister in Utica. His grandsonAlfred Conkling Coxe was a federal judge in New York.Works
*"Quakerism not Christianity", (1833)
*"Interviews, Memorable and Useful", (1853).ources
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