Edward Travers Cox

Edward Travers Cox (* 1821 in Culpeper County , Virginia ; † 1907 ) was an American geologist .

Life

In 1826 his family moved to Robert Owens Colony, New Harmony , Indiana, where he and James Sampson taught him to classify fossils and other rock samples. He became an assistant to David Dale Owen and conducted studies for the US government in the Upper Mississippi, Kentucky and Arkansas. Indiana State Geologist from 1869 to 1879.

Individual evidence

^ Cox, Edward Travers . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 1 : Aaron - Crandall . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 757 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Cox, Edward Travers
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American geologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1821
PLACE OF BIRTH	Culpeper County
DATE OF DEATH	1907

[1] Cox, Edward Travers . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 1 : Aaron - Crandall . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 757 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).