Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . ur, and later moving to PineCreek, where John Cox, who was a cooper bytrade, continued to manufacture ban-els and cul-tivate bis small farm for the remainder of hislife. Hiram received average training in hisyouth, profited by the public schools and learnedto be a model farmer. At the outbreali of theCivil War he enlisted in Company G, Seventy-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, from OgleCounty, for three years, and at the expirationof his term veteranized in Company F, SecondReserve Corps, where he continued until the de-claration of peace. Returning to O
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . ur, and later moving to PineCreek, where John Cox, who was a cooper bytrade, continued to manufacture ban-els and cul-tivate bis small farm for the remainder of hislife. Hiram received average training in hisyouth, profited by the public schools and learnedto be a model farmer. At the outbreali of theCivil War he enlisted in Company G, Seventy-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, from OgleCounty, for three years, and at the expirationof his term veteranized in Company F, SecondReserve Corps, where he continued until the de-claration of peace. Returning to Ogle County,he purchased a farm in Oregon Township, im-proved the same, and later added to it until heowned in all 320 acres. In 1892 he left thefarm and since has lived retired in Oregon,where he owns a pleasant home, and amongother interesting diversions, makes frequenttrips to his fniit farm in the San Joaquin Val-ley. Cal. He is a man of strong character andgreat determination, and his success has beenentirely of his own making. i. HISTORY OF OGLE COUNTY. The education of Jerome F. Cox was acquiredin tlie Oregon public schools, in Wells TrainingSchool, Oregon, and at Eureka College, His high training has been the result ofhis ability to make his own way in the world,for he taught in the rural schools of the countyfrom 1887 until 1892, thus earning his tuitionand living expenses. From until 1903, heengaged in general farming near Grand Detour,discontinuing the same upon his election to theoffices of Circuit Clerk and Recorder of OgleCounty in November, 1904. His political servicehas been eminently satisfactory to both parties,being characterized by painstaking care and de-votion to the best interests of the people. Mr. Cox is social in his tendencies, and Isidentified with the Masons, Modern Woodmenand Knights of the Globe. With his family hefinds a religious home in the Christian 27. 1889, Mr, Cox was united in mar-riage to Bertha O. Johnson,
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