Samuel Hanson Cox (August 25, 1793 – October 2, 1880) was an American Presbyterian minister and a leading abolitionist. Cox was born in Rahway, New Jersey, of Quaker stock. He was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Mendham, New Jersey, in 1817-1821, and of two churches in New York City from 1821 to 1834. Due to his anti-slavery sentiments, he was mobbed, and his house and church were sacked. He helped to found the University 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 to Owego, New York. He died at Bronxville, New York, six years later. His son, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, became bishop of western New York.
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NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, THURSDAY OCTOBER 7, 1880
FUNERAL OF THE REV. DR. COX. The funeral of the late Rev. Dr. Samuel Hanson Cox, who died at Bronxville, Westchester County, on Saturday, was attended by a large number of clergymen and friends of Dr. Cox at the First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn yesterday afternoon. Dr. Cox was at one time pastor of this church. The pallbearers were the Rev. Drs. John Hall, of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, C. S. Robinson, of the Memorial Presbyterian Church, William Ormiston, of the Collegiate Reformed Church, R. D. Hitchcock and E. P. Prentice, of the Union Theological Seminary, E. B. Burchard, formerly of the Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church, and A. W. Spaulding. The services were conducted by the Rev. Charles Cathbert Hall, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, the Rev. Dr. Hatfield, Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian General Assembly, and the Rev. Dr. Richard S. Storrs, of the Church of the Pilgrims of Brooklyn. Dr. Storrs paid a high tribute to Dr. Cox, with whom he was in intimate friendship, and said that Dr. Erskine, the Scottish divine, told him that Dr. Cox was one of the most eloquent men he had ever heard. The burial was in the pastors' vault of the First Presbyterian Church in Greenwood Cemetery, where the bodies of two other pastors of the church had been placed.
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THANKS TO: VintageMom for the obit and the location of Rev. Cox's grave.

THANKS ALSO TO: Bob Collins for the photos of the gravesite.∼Perhaps the single worst day in the history of Charlton Street Manhattan New York was July 10, 1834, when Charlton Street was overrun by a racist mob seeking to harm the Rev. Samuel H. Cox, who lived at 3 Charlton.
Cox was an abolitionist in an era when abolitionists were viewed as radicals and troublemakers. Days before the mob invaded Charlton Street, he had preached that Americans should have sympathy for the plight of slaves because Jesus "was a colored man… probably of a dark Syrian hue," a description that infuriated many whites. Newspapers accused Cox, who was himself white, of seeking social equality for blacks in order to promote interracial sex and marriage. As tensions mounted, a white mob attacked an abolitionist meeting on Chatham Street on July 9. The following day, rioters smashed the windows of Cox‟s church on Laight Street and swept north to Charlton, barricading the street and breaking into his house. Fortunately, Cox and his family had fled, but the rioters looted the house and returned the next morning to loot it again. Mob violence continued throughout Lower Manhattan for three days, targeting the homes, churches, and shops of blacks and abolitionists. Shaken by these events, Cox moved upstate to teach theology.