Coxe, John Redman

Life Span
to
Dickinson Connection
Class of 1849
Full name
John Redman Coxe
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, PA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
1
Family
Edward J. Coxe (father), Mary Clapier Coxe (mother), Catherine Clifton Bridges (wife), Mary Louisa Coxe (daughter)
Education
Dickinson (Carlisle College)
Harvard
Occupation
Military
Attorney or Judge
Businessman
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Military
Union Army
US military (Post-Civil War)

John Redman Coxe (Dickinson Alumni Record)

Reference
Coxe, John Redman---Born October 6, 1829, in Philadelphia, Pa.; p., Edward J and Mary L. (Clapier) Coxe; prep., James Cronell's School, West Chester, Pa.; entered 1845; Harvard Law School 1849, and graduated 1851; A. B. and A. M., Dickinson; real estate; issuing commissary of subsistence, headquarters army of the Potomac; captain, August 28, 1862, serving under Generals McClellan, Burnside, Hooker and Meade, commissary general, national guard of Pennsylvania, with rank of brigadier general, 1877-79; U. P. society; married December 23, 1863 to Catharine Cliffton Bridges of Philadelphia; child, Mary Louisa.  Address, 1314 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 134.
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