As it Were: 'Sunset' Cox had a way with words as newspaper owner
As it Were: 'Sunset' Cox had a way with words as newspaper owner Ed Lentz Samuel Sullivan Cox was a man of extraordinary abilities. Cox lived in Ohio during its formative years and through a bloody Civil War before moving to New York City later in life and ably represented his part of town in Congress. Along the way he made enemies and friends as a classic conservative War Democrat who deplored the Civil War but supported the Union. Today a statue of him stands in Tomkins Park in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. But that is not why he is remembered as one of the...