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xix Identification of People Coxe, Charles Brinton, Sr. (February 4, 1843–January 3, 1873). Charles Brinton Coxe was the son of Charles Sidney Coxe (1791–1879) and Anna Maria Brinton (1801–1876), cousin of George Brinton McClellan (1826– 1885), and grandson of Tench Coxe (1755–1824). Charles’s third cousin was Edward Robbins Wharton.1 Charles was a scholar, having taken the highest rank in the University of Pennsylvania class of 1862. He served in the Union Cavalry from 1862 to 1865, rising to the rank of major of the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Rush’s Lancers,2 the only lancer regiment in the Union Cavalry. After he was discharged from the army on June 17, 1865, he joined Coxe Brothers & Company in Hazelton, Pennsylvania, along with his brothers Eckley Brinton Coxe, Alexander “Aleck” Brinton Coxe, Henry Brinton Coxe, and Brinton Coxe, and cousin Franklin Coxe. Charles married Elizabeth Sinkler on June 14, 1870. The Coxe family was a distinguished, old Philadelphia family and were lifetime friends of Lizzie’s grandparents, Thomas Isaac Wharton3 and Arabella Griffith Wharton. 1. Edward Robbins Wharton (1850–1928) was the former husband of Edith Newbold Jones Wharton (1862–1937), the renowned writer (see Louis Auchincloss , The Vanderbilt Era: Profiles of a Gilded Age [New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1989]). 2. Eric J. Wittenberg’s book about the Union cavalry quotes Lt. Charles Coxe’s comment in an 1863 letter to John Cadwalader: “Raids are grand humbugs” (The Union Cavalry Comes of Age: Hartwood Church to Brandy Station, 1863 [Washington , D.C.: Brassey’s, 2003], 232). Coxe served in the 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry (also known as the 70th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers), which was commanded by Col. Richard Henry Rush (1825–1893), great-grandson of noted Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush (1745–1813). Col. Rush armed his regiment with lances, hence the name “Rush’s Lancers” (100, 137). 3. Thomas Isaac Wharton was a first cousin to William Wharton (1790–1856), who was the father of Joseph Wharton (1826–1909), the renowned manufacturer, xx Identification of People Coxe, Charles Sidney (1791–1879). Son of Tench Coxe (1755–1824) and Anna Maria Brinton (1801–1876), Charles Sidney Coxe served as the executor of his grandfather’s estate and as early as 1854 leased land to other companies to establish coal mines near present-day Eckley, about three miles from Drifton, Pennsylvania. Recognizing the difficulties inherent in mining coal, transporting it, and taking it to market, Charles Sidney Coxe encouraged his own sons to focus on education, an emphasis that led his son Eckley to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania and to obtain a first-rate mining education in Europe while son Aleck studied at the University of Pennsylvania.4 Charles Sidney Coxe’s sons and a nephew established Coxe Brothers & Company on January 30, 1865.5 Charles Sidney Coxe died in Drifton on November 19, 1879. Coxe, Eckley Brinton, Sr. (June 4, 1839–May 13, 1895). Eckley Brinton Coxe was the son of Charles Sidney Coxe (1791–1879) and Anna Maria Brinton (1801–1876), cousin of George B. McClellan (1826–1885), and grandson of Tench Coxe (1755–1824). The name Eckley comes from Sarah Eckley (1690–1725), Tench Coxe’s grandmother. Eckley Sr.’s grandfather, Tench Coxe, had the astuteness and vision to retain land acquired by his grandfather, Daniel Coxe (1673–1739), to acquire more land, and to form a company that profited from the mining of anthracite. As early as 1794, metallurgist, nickel monopolist, and philanthropist. Joseph Wharton helped found Swarthmore College and donated generously to the University of Pennsylvania. Wharton’s largesse helped establish the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce (“Joseph Wharton,” Dictionary of American Biography, Base Set, American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–36; reproduced in Biography Resource Center [Farmington Hills: Gale Group, 2004], http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC [accessed July 12, 2005]). Wharton’s nickel mine was located about ninety miles south of Drifton, in Gap, Pennsylvania (Joseph Wharton Family Papers, 1691– 1955, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, http://www.swarthmore .edu/Library/friends/ead/5162jowh.htm [accessed July 13, 2005]). 4. “Background Note,” Sophia Yarnall Jacobs Papers, 1861–1990, http://www2 .hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/j/jacobs3007.htm (accessed July 12, 2005). Coxe Brothers & Co. “shipped their first coal” in June 1865 (H. C. Bradsby, ed., History of Luzerne County Pennsylvania [Chicago: S. B. Nelson, 1893], http://www.rootsweb .com/~usgenweb/pa/luzerne/1893hist/ch11.htm [accessed July 12, 2005]). 5. Bradsby, ed...

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