The son of William & FNU. Brady Cox, he married Amanda Funk and fathered William (b. @1851), Ida (b,. @1856), and Charles Edward (b. ?). He was described as a person of "magnificent physique . . . manly and symmetrical form" with a personality that was "pleasant, affable and entertaining."
A Civil War veteran, he served two brief and uneventful terms of service:
- Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-four in Harrisburg September 16, 1862, mustered in to state service as lieutenant colonel of the 10th Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, and honorably discharged with the regiment September 26, 1862.
- Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-four in Lancaster July 8, 1863, mustered into state service at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg July 9 as major of the 47th Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with the regiment August 14, 1863.
He died at Lancaster County Hospital reportedly from softening of the brain due to sunstroke. His lengthy and glowing obituary in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal makes no mention of his military experience.
The Lititz Record - 28 Oct 1881
Benjamin F. Cox, the superintendent of the Lancaster county hospital, died at that institution on Tuesday morning after an illness of about two months. He had been superintendent for ten years.
The son of William & FNU. Brady Cox, he married Amanda Funk and fathered William (b. @1851), Ida (b,. @1856), and Charles Edward (b. ?). He was described as a person of "magnificent physique . . . manly and symmetrical form" with a personality that was "pleasant, affable and entertaining."
A Civil War veteran, he served two brief and uneventful terms of service:
- Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-four in Harrisburg September 16, 1862, mustered in to state service as lieutenant colonel of the 10th Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, and honorably discharged with the regiment September 26, 1862.
- Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-four in Lancaster July 8, 1863, mustered into state service at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg July 9 as major of the 47th Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with the regiment August 14, 1863.
He died at Lancaster County Hospital reportedly from softening of the brain due to sunstroke. His lengthy and glowing obituary in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal makes no mention of his military experience.
The Lititz Record - 28 Oct 1881
Benjamin F. Cox, the superintendent of the Lancaster county hospital, died at that institution on Tuesday morning after an illness of about two months. He had been superintendent for ten years.
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