a Methodist Episcopal minister, twin brother of Melville B. Cox, was born at Hallowell, Maine, November 9, 1799. He joined the Church at the age of eighteen; was soon licensed to preach, and gave great promise of usefulness; spent several years in Belfast in business, and in 1830 joined the Maine Conference, in which, and in the New England Conference, he labored with but few intermissions as a supernumerary. for more than thirty years. In 1864 he became superannuated, which relation he sustained until his decease in Salem, November 16, 1879. Mr. Cox was a plain, earnest, instructive, Biblical preacher. In his prime he was one of the mighty preachers in New England Methodism, filling with great acceptability her chief pulpits. He was a superior pastor, spiritually minded, conscientious, and prayerful; a man of broad self-culture; was a ready and clear writer, for many years editing The Maine Wesleyan Journal; and in addition to numerous contributions to the Quarterly Review he was the author of the memoir of Melville B. Cox. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1880, page 65.<\/p>\n
Cox, Gershom Plagg, A.M a Methodist Episcopal minister, twin brother of Melville B. Cox, was born at Hallowell, Maine, November 9, 1799. He joined the Church at the age of eighteen; was soon licensed to preach, and gave great promise of usefulness; spent several years in Belfast in business, and in 1830 joined the Maine … Continue reading “Cox, Gershom Plagg, A.M”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}