Christopher C. Cox

Christopher Christian Cox was born in Baltimore on August 28, 1816. He received an A.M. and an A.B. degree from Yale in 1835 and then attended medical school at Washington University in Baltimore, receiving a degree in 1838 and beginning a practice. During that year, he also became a member of the Medical & Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. From 1843 to 1848, he moved his practice to Easton and became the President of the Talbot County Medical Society.

In 1848, Cox moved to Philadelphia and became a Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at the Philadelphia College of Medicine, and then a professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children. He returned to Baltimore and by 1850, was named as Orator at the Faculty, and from 1856-57 was the President.

As war approached, Cox became a Surgeon for the Union States Army and then the Surgeon General for the State of Maryland. From 1863-64, He was the VP of the American Medical Association (1863-64), and then became the Lieutenant-Governor of Maryland in 1864.

Cox again left Maryland to study for his LLD at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He became the Commissioner of Pensions in 1868, and then moved to Georgetown University to become a Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, and also of Anatomy. He was the President of the DC Board of Health from 1870 to 1872. From 1870-72, Cox was the editor of the National Medical Journal in Washington, as well as an associate editor of the Baltimore Patriot.

Christopher Cox died in Washington, DC on November 25, 1882.