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CALHOUN COUNTY MICHIGAN CALHOUN COUNTY
Dr. Cox was a native of the Empire State. He was born on the 6th of January, 1816, at Cambridge. Washington county. X. Y., the same county which gave birth also to Jonathan Hart, a distinguished pioneer of this city. His parents were Silas and Abigail Cox. both of whom spent the evening of their days in Battle Creek and enjoyed the unbounded respect of our citizens for their sterling qualities of character, and their active usefulness as members of society.
In 1819, when Edward was three years of age, his parents removed to Onondaga county, where after suitable literary preparation, he studied medicine in the offices of Dr. Benjamin Trumbull of Borodino, and Dr. C. Campbell of South Butler. N. Y. He afterward pursued his studies at Geneva Medical College, at which institution he took his medical degree in January, 1839, with distinguished honors and entered upon his profession with a high promise which was fully realized in his subsequent career.
He commenced practice in Wayne county, N. Y., where he remained but six months, and in September, 1839, —forty-three years ago this very month —he arrived in this city, then a village of but a few hundred inhabitants, and permanently established himself as the second regular medical practitioner of the place; Dr. William M. Campbell with whom he associated himself in professional practice, being the first. At that time the young physician and the community in which he cast his fortunes, had a future to be made by their own enterprise and energy. The town was just emerging from a rivalry with Verona, as the business centre of this section.
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