Harry Howard Cox

COX, HARRY HOWARD, farmer and merchant; b. ca. 10 June 1874, son of Julius Cox and Jane Ellen Jeffs; m. first 1905 Margaret Florence MacLaine; m. secondly Lottie A. MacLaine; m. thirdly Katherine M. Pratt; he had one child, Herbert H.; d. 1950. Cox, a Liberal, was elected to the House of Assembly in the general election of 1927 for 2nd Kings. He was re-elected in the general elections of 1931, 1935, 1939, 1943, and 1947. He was defeated in the general election of 1923. In 1950 Cox died while serving as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. During his political career, he served as Minister without Portfolio from 1948 to 1950. He also served as Chairman of the Fishermen's Loan Board. As a businessperson, Cox deplored governmental paternalism and applied these beliefs in his day-to-day dealings. Cox resided in Morell where he was a merchant. As a young man he worked in the general store owned by his uncle, Robert N. Cox '. In 1910 Cox began his own business, which led to many successful ventures, including a lobster factory at Naufrage. He was also the manager and a stockholder of the St. Peters Starch Company Limited and served as vice-president of the Charlottetown Can Company Limited, reportedly the largest of its kind in the Maritimes. In addition, Cox supervised a farm in his home community. Harry Cox died in 1950. Margaret Cox of St. Peters Bay was born in 1884 and died in 1913. Cox later married Lottie, w'ho died in 1915. Katherine Cox, his third wife, was born in 1882 and died in 1963. Herbert H. Cox went on to become the Chief Engineer with the Malartic Coal Fields in Quebec.