Cox College (Georgia)
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Cox College was a private women's college located in College Park, Georgia that operated from 1842 to 1934.
Cox College was originally called LaGrange Female Seminary{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/c.pdf | title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=53 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}} in 1842 when it opened in LaGrange, Georgia. It changed names several times: to LaGrange Collegiate Seminary for Young Ladies in 1850, Southern and Western Female College in 1852, Southern Female College in 1854; and finally to Cox College by the 1890s. Part of the school moved to East Point, Georgia in the 1890s, however the main institution moved to Manchester, Georgia in 1895, which renamed itself College Park in 1896. By 1913 it was sometimes referred to as Cox College and Conservatory. It closed several times, including ten years between 1923 and 1933. It reopened one more time in 1933, but closed for a final time in 1934. Cox College’s closure effectively rendered the name of College Park a misnomer.
Notable alumni
- Ruth Blair, first woman state historian of Georgia{{cite journal|last=Trace | first=Ciaran B. |title=Atlanta between the Wars: The Creation of the Georgia Department of Archives and History, 1918-1936 | journal=Information & Culture | volume=50 | issue=4 | year=2015 | pages=504–553 | jstor=44667602 | doi=10.7560/IC50403 | s2cid=146636914 | issn=2164-8034 }}
- Lella A. Dillard (A. B. 1881), president of the Georgia Woman's Christian Temperance Union{{cite book |last1=Cherrington |first1=Ernest Hurst |author-link1=Ernest Cherrington |title=Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem |date=1925 |publisher=American Issue Publishing House |location=Westerville, Ohio |volume=2 |via=Internet Archive |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/standardencyclop02cher/page/794 |page=794 |chapter=DILLARD, LELLA AUGUSTA |access-date=29 December 2022 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}
- Ida Pruitt, social worker and writer on Sino-American relations{{cite book|author=Shavit, David |title=The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary |location=New York |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1990 |pages=405–406 |isbn=9780313267888 | oclc=21522840 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IWdZTaJdc6UC&pg=PA405 | access-date=July 30, 2020 |via=Google Books}}
- Lucy May Stanton, artist known for her portrait miniatures, graduated in 1893Fowler, Betty Alice (2009). [http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-972 "Lucy May Stanton (1875-1931)"]. New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
See also
References
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Sources
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100618173945/http://www2.westminster-mo.edu/wc_users/homepages/staff/brownr/imagesandpdfs/cox/coxgaviewbook.pdf Early 1900s College Viewbook for Cox College], Westminster College
- [http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/meta/html/dlg/vang/meta_dlg_vang_ful0964-85.html?Welcome Cox College and Conservatory], The Digital Library of Georgia
External links
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Category:Former women's universities and colleges in the United States
Category:1842 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Category:1934 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
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