. Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ;. town, anduntil he was eighteen years old worked on hisfathers farm. When he left home he enteredthe employ of Robinson & Fifield, of Charles-town, Massachusetts, and learned the uphol-stery business. He followed this trade forabout fourteen years. In 1865 he came toWinchester, Massachusetts, buying a third in-terest in the Locke place, and engaged in mar-ket gardening with his brother-in-law, OliverJ. Locke. After Mr. Locke retired, Mr. Coxcontinued the business alon
. Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ;. town, anduntil he was eighteen years old worked on hisfathers farm. When he left home he enteredthe employ of Robinson & Fifield, of Charles-town, Massachusetts, and learned the uphol-stery business. He followed this trade forabout fourteen years. In 1865 he came toWinchester, Massachusetts, buying a third in-terest in the Locke place, and engaged in mar-ket gardening with his brother-in-law, OliverJ. Locke. After Mr. Locke retired, Mr. Coxcontinued the business alone until the time ofhis death, February 22, 1892. He w^as very-industrious and prosperous, upright and hon-est in every kind of dealing, deserving andenjoying the fullest honor and confidence olhis townsmen. In religion he was a Metho-dist, an active and faithful member of theWinchester Methodist Episcopal Church. Inpolitics he was a Republican. He was anearnest advocate of total abstinence, and aprominent temperance man. He was a char-ter member of the Boston Market Gardeners .x\ssociation. He married, at Charlestown,. ARTHUR CLARK COX iA[IDDLESEX COUNTY. 735 January i, 1851, Sarah Maria Locke, daugh-ter of Jonathan and Betsey (Russell) Locke,of West Cambridg-e, Massachusetts. Herfather, Jonathan Locke, was a farmer. Chil-dren: I. Charles Clark, born April 11, 1853,at Charlestown; died at Winchester, August4, 1883; married Sarah Hovey Rawson, ofArlington. 2. Herbert L., born November i,1866, mentioned below. (VI) Herbert Lincoln Cox, son of ArthurClark Cox (5), was born at Winchester, Mas-sachusetts, November i, 1866. He receivedhis education in the public schools of his na-tive town, graduating from the Winchesterhigh school in 1883. He studied engineeringand designing for a year in the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, and entered the em-ploy of the Forbes Lithographing Company ofBoston in the designing department. He thenentered the employ of the Boston and NewYork Rubbe
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