Cox, Isaac Joslin, 1873-1956

Isaac Joslin Cox was born on November 19, 1873, in West Creek, Ocean County, New Jersey, son of Walter Scott Cox and Almeda Joslin Cox. Cox joined Northwestern's faculty as a member of the History Department in 1919, where he remained until his retirement in 1941.

In 1892, Cox entered Dartmouth College after graduating from Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, New Hampshire. He obtained the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1896 from Dartmouth. For the next six years he taught (and was vice principal) at the San Antonio Academy in Texas. Cox then resumed his formal education in 1902 with a Harrison Fellowship in American History at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1904 he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree. Cox did additional research at the Universities of Texas, Chicago, and Wisconsin, and spent his summers from 1898 to 1911 at the Archivo General in Mexico City.

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