Central High School - Pemican Yearbook (High Point, NC)

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31. QEItnnnh Clllnx R. ELYVUOD COX was born in Northampton County November 1, 1856. He was educated at Guilford College, the Business College of Baltimore, and the famous Friends' School of Indiana, Earlham College. He moved to High Point in his early life, taught school for a short while and later entered the arena of business. In 1883 Mr. Cox entered the manufacturing world in which he has continued to the present time. Then, he owns extensive acres of hardwood and timber mills in North and South Carolina. Alabama and Tennessee. He is president of the Commercial National Bank, the largest in the county, president of the High Point Savings Bank and Trust Company, a director in the Virginia Trust Company of Richmond, the First National Bank of Thomasville, the jefferson Life Insurance Company and the Greensboro Loan and Trust Company. He was chair- man of the High School Board for seventeen years. He be- came the Republican candidate for Governor in 1908 and he has been urgently requested by friends to again become candi- date for the gubernatorial chair. He is sagatious in business and unparalleled as a leader in every movement of public interest. He stands pre-eminent in loyalty to school, city and country.