Sacramento County
Biographies
JOHN H. COX
JOHN H. COX, orchardist, and bolt and rivet maker, near Sacramento, was born in Worcestershire, England, seven miles from Birmingham, June 21, 1839. At the age of eight years he commenced to work in a bolt and rivet shop, preparing to learn the trade, and he continued until he thoroughly mastered it. At the age of eighteen he was able to command the wages of a journeyman, and he continued in his calling there until 1865. In 1858 he married Honnor Hackett, at the age of sixteen, a native of the same locality. In 1865 he emigrated to the United States, landing in New York in July. He was a resident of New York State and Illinois until 1873, when he came to California locating in this city. Here he prosecuted the bolt and rivet trade until 1877, when he moved upon his present fine fruit ranch of five and half acres, on the river road south of town. Some of the trees in his orchard are twenty-five years old, and he has set out a great many since his purchase of the place. He also has a shop here where he does work in the line of bolts and rivets. He is also interested in a hop farm on the Cosumnes River for the past seven years. In the spring of 1885 he visited his native country, taking with him five car-loads of hops. Mr. and Mrs. Cox have six children, four sons and two daughters: Alice, the eldest, born in England, is now the widow of Charles H. Young; Harvey, the second child, born in England, and George W., the third child born in New York, are blacksmiths in Palermo, Butte County; John E., the fourth child, was born in Illinois, now manufacturing cement chimney pipe; and C., and Ethel B., are native of this county.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Pages 699-700. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.