Excerpt from Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Americans Now Living: Philosophy Teaching by Example William, the second son of Daniel Coxe, dwelt, during a considera ble portion of his life, in the city of Philadelphia, where he married the daughter of Tench Francis, then attorney-general of the Province of Pennsylvania, son of the dean of Christ Church in Dublin, and brother of Dr. Philip Francis, so well known among men of letters as the translator of Demosthenes and Horace. Of this gentleman, richard smith Cox's was the grandson, being named after his maternal grand father, who was a merchant of the city of Philadelphia.

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