Background
Cox, J. Elwood was born on November 1, 1856 in Rich Square, North Carolina, United States. Son of Jonathan E. and Elizabeth A. (Hare) Cox.
Cox, J. Elwood was born on November 1, 1856 in Rich Square, North Carolina, United States. Son of Jonathan E. and Elizabeth A. (Hare) Cox.
Educated Guilford College, North Carolina, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, and business college, Baltimore.
President Commercial National Bank. Director First National Bank, Thomasville, North Carolina, Greensboro (North Carolina) Loan & Trust Company, Virginia Trust Company, Richmond, Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, Greensboro, North Carolina. Also president High Point (North Carolina) Savings and Trust Company.
Director Southern Exposition Building (cost $1,000,000), High Point, High Point Hotel Company Republican nominee for government North Carolina, 1908.
Member Friends Church. Member North Carolina State Highway Commission, since 1921. Member executive council and president national bank section of America Bankers’ Association, 1917, treasurer, 1923.
Member committee from North Carolina on War Finance Corporation.
Married Bertha East. Snow, October 23, 1878.