Rowland Cox

Background

Rowland Cox was a direct descendant of Richard Cox who, emigrating from England in 1708 to Newark, Delaware, ultimately settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1728. His father, John Cooke Cox, who married Ann Johns, daughter of Judge Rowland of the supreme court of Delaware, resided at Philadelphia where Rowland Cox was born on July 09, 1842.

Education

Rowland received his early education privately. In 1863 he entered the College of New Jersey (Princeton).

Career

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Cox enlisted as a private in Company B, 15th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, on October 3, 1862, at Carlisle. He took part in the Stone River and Chickamauga campaigns, and was promoted assistant adjutant-general on the staff of Major-General J. B. McPherson, commanding the 17th Army Corps, October 9, 1863. He remained on McPherson’s staff when the latter assumed command of the Army of Tennessee, and was present at the battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, where McPherson was killed. He then joined the staff of Major-General F. P. Blair and participated in Sherman’s march through Georgia and the Carolinas.

At the conclusion of the war he retired with the rank of brevet major, and took up the study of law at Quincy, being admitted to the Illinois bar in 1868. He practised for a short time at Washington, D. C. , specializing in the law of inventions, copyright, and trade-marks, and edited American Law Times Reports, volumes II-VI (1869 - 1874), and American Law Times Reports, volumes I-IV (1874 - 1877), in addition to preparing American Trade Mark Cases, a Compilation of all the Reported Trade Mark Cases Decided in the United States Courts prior to 1871, Together with the Leading English Cases (1871).

In 1875 he removed to New York City. In 1878 in conjunction with Howard Ellis, he edited The Reporter: Decisions of the Supreme and Circuit Courts, United States, Courts of Last Resort in the Several States and of the English and Irish Courts, volumes V and VI, being a continuation of American Law Times Reports, N. S. , volumes I-IV.

In 1881 appeared his Manual of Trade Mark Cases; Comprising L. B. Sebastian’s Digest of Trade-Mark Cases Covering Cases Prior to 1879, with Those of a Leading Character since that Time. For over twenty years he was engaged in most of the important trade-mark and copyright litigation in the United States. He made it an invariable practise to accept retainers on behalf of complainants only, being thus enabled to employ a systematic method of argument in every instance. Never spectacular, he always appealed to the intellect, and his clear, cold, logical arguments, clothed in unpretentious yet forcible language, always had a powerful effect in cases where the principles of equity were allowed full sway.

Achievements

• Rowland Cox has been listed as a reputable lawyer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The American Law Times Reports, 1876, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

    (Excerpt from The American Law Times Reports, 1876, Vol. 3...)

  • The American Law Times Reports - Vol. II

    (The American Law Times Reports - Vol. II by Rowland Cox. ...)

  • American trade mark cases: a compilation of all the reported trade mark cases decided in the American courts prior to the year 1871. With an appendix ... to the registration of trade marks … 1871

    (Originally published in 1871. This volume from the Cornel...)

  • A Manual of Trade-Mark Cases: Comprising Sebastian's Digest of Trade-Mark Cases, Covering All the Cases Reported Prior to the Year 1879; Together With ... Time. With Notes and References 1892

    (Originally published in 1892. This volume from the Cornel...)

Connections

On October 29, 1868, Cox was married to Fanny Cummins, daughter of Robert Hill of Smyrna, Delaware.

Father:

John Cooke Cox

Mother:

Ann Johns

Spouse:

Fanny Cummins Hill