Background
Cox, Clarence Brown was born on April 18, 1873 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Review George H. (Doctor of Divinity) and Nannie E. (McPherson) C.
Cox, Clarence Brown was born on April 18, 1873 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Review George H. (Doctor of Divinity) and Nannie E. (McPherson) C.
Bachelor of Arts, North Carolina College, Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, 1895, Master of Arts, 1897. Bachelor of Divinity, Lutheran Theological Seminary, 1898. Doctor of Divinity, Wittenberg College, Springfield, O., 1924.
Ordained Lutheran ministry, 1898. Pastor Asheville, North Carolina, 1898-1900, Greenville, Tennessee, 1900-1903, Burlington, North Carolina, 1903-1911, Norfolk, Virginia, 1911-1914. President Marion Junior College since 1916.
President Lutheran Synod of Virginia, 1922-1926.
Delegate United Lutheran Church America since 1918.
Kiwanian.
Married Cordelia East. Spangler, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1898 (died 1911). Married second, Blanch Mearig Kuhlman, of Norfolk, Virginia, 1912. Children: Catherine Cordelia.