1896

Continuing the series of life sketches of members of the Class of 1896, we present this month the following report from:

LOUIS S. COX

After graduating I attended the Harvard Medical School for a half year and then entered the Boston University Law School from which I was graduated in 1899. Admitted to the Bar that same year, commenced the practice of Law in Boston where I remained until 1900 when I went to Lawrence, Mass. My law practice was of the general, diversified character in which no case is too small and, as a rule, no case too large.

In 1902 I married Mary I. Fieles of Lawrence and we have two children, Randall T., Dartmouth '26 and Dorothy, Beaver '32. There are three grandchildren.

In March, 1918 I was appointed to the Superior Court of Massachusetts by that good Dartmouth man, Samuel W. McCall, the then Governor. After serving on that Court until November, 1937, X was appointed to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, continuing there until January, 1944 when I retired.

In the meantime, or perhaps now and then, I served a term in the Massachusetts Senate, was Captain of a Field Artillery Battery in the National Guard, Colonel of a State Guard Regiment during World War II, Postmaster of Lawrence for eight years and District Attorney of the Eastern District of Massachusetts.

Incidentally I carried on a 125-acre farm, stocked with Registered Guernseys, wrote a magazine article entitled A Portrait of aYankee Farmer that made the Readers' Digest and compiled two books relating to my ancestors and their families.

I am a 32d degree Mason and have belonged to the Odd Fellows, Elks and Grange. My chances of living 35 years ago were conservatively estimated by competent physicians as 50-50 but I have managed to keep going.

I have or have had such activities as Trustee of a Savings Bank, Director of two Fire Insurance Companies, President of the Massachusetts Bar Association, Member of Massachusetts Judicial Council, and was awarded degree of Doctor of Judicial Science by Suffolk University in 1950. I have also served as Vice-president of New Hampshire Historical Society, President of Massachusetts Guernsey Breeders Association and Councillor of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Sometimes I just sit and relive those precious days, whether hot or cold, when we were in Hanover. I see ourselves as we then were and the College at the end of one and the beginning of another era. I would not feel badly if all of us who entered College were back there again in the same setting.

THE CAREER of Louis S. Cox '96, sketched this month, shows that bow ties may become smaller, but a man's enjoyment and interest in life greaier, over a period of fifty years.

Secretary, Treasurer and Class Agent 2i Forest Rd., Cape Elizabeth 7, Me.