James E. Cox

James Elliot Cox was born in Boston, Mass., July 4, 1880. He was the son of John and Elizabeth (Storey) Cox. He graduated from Tufts College Dental School, Boston, with the class of 1909. He married Helen Florence Hoyt, daughter of John and Phoebe (Butman) Hoyt, October 15, 1914, in Malden. They lived in Malden, and he worked in Charlestown as a dentist.
Cox was commissioned July, 1917. He was called into active service from O. R. C. as 1st Lieut., D. C., Sept. 8, 1917. He was promoted to Captain, February, 1918, and assigned to D.C., 371st Inf., 93d Div. He was transferred March 18 to General Hospital 2, Sanitary Detachment. Capt. Cox died April 11, 1920, at Columbus Barracks, Ohio, of burns following a laboratory explosion.