Background
Coxe, William Briscom was born on February 25, 1869 in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles Chauncey and Annie Ellen (Griscom) Coxe.
Coxe, William Briscom was born on February 25, 1869 in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles Chauncey and Annie Ellen (Griscom) Coxe.
Graduate Royal Technology College, Charlottenburg, Berlin, 1891. Served apprenticeship as marine engineer, with J. & G. Thompson, Clyde Bank, Scotland, also with North German Lloyd repair plant, Bremerhaven, Germany.
Foreign representative and assistant general superintendent William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company, Philadelphia, 1898-1904. Delivered to Russia, from Cramps, the battleship Retvizan and the cruiser Variag. To Japan, the cruiser Kasagi.
President Harlan & Hollingsworth Corporation, Wilmington, Delaware, 13½ years.
President Reading Paper Mills Company. General manager for Pusey & Jones Company of the Wilmington and Gloucester, New Jersey, plants.
Served as senior Lieutenant United States Navy, Spanish-American War, 1898.
Married Helen Baer, April.