Background
Cox, George Howland was born on February 8, 1883 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George Howland and Ella Parkhurst (Whittemore) Cox.
Cox, George Howland was born on February 8, 1883 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George Howland and Ella Parkhurst (Whittemore) Cox.
Student Cambridge High and Latin School, 1892-1897, Powder Point School (Duxbury, Massachusetts), 1897-1898, Saint John's Military School (Manlius, New York), 1898-1900, Harvard, 1904-1906.
Howland (died 1922); married second, Elizabeth Bulletin Prudden, 1931 (she died in 1946). Entered business career as a bank clerk, also bond salesman, in Cincinnati, O., 1906-1909. Bond salesman Ernest Smith, Incorporated., Boston, 1910-1912.
Assistant secretary Massachusetts Trust Company, Boston, 1913-1917.
Bond salesman White, Weld & Company, Boston, 1919-1921. Member Whitney, Cox & Company, investments, 1921-1922.
With accounting department United Fruit Company, Guatemala, 1922-1929. Correspondent for Christian Science Monitor, 1930-1934.
Director Inter-American Center and lecturer on Hispanic American history, George Washington University, 1934-1946.
Member Whitney, Cox & Company, investments, 1921-1922. Served as Second lieutenant, Air Corps., United States Army, Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, and Wilbur Wright Field, Fairfield, O., and military police officer at Dayton and Springfield, O., World War. Member Pan-American Society, Academy Political Science, Military Order World Wars.
Mason.
Club: Cosmos (Washington).
Married Mabel Holroyd, 1920 (died 1921). Married second, Elizabeth Bulletin Prudden, 1931 (she died in 1946).