ORSON O. COX.  Among the farmers of recognized moral and material worth wose labors have helped largely to develop the interests of East Township, one who has been the architect of his own fortunes and has worked his way unaided to prosperity is Orson O. Cox.  Mr. Cox, is one of the agriculturists of his community who has found success through specializing, devoting himself principally to fruit and berry culture and to the raising of White Leghorn chickens, and in both connections his property, known as Grand View Fruit Farm, has gained something more than local distinction.
     Mr. Cox was born Nov. 12, 1872, in East Township, Carroll County, a son of James and Anna Jane (Downer) Cox, and a grandson of James Cox, an early settler and agriculturist of this township.  James Cox the younger, father of Orson O. Cox, was born on the old family farm in East Township, where he grew to manhood, and here married Miss Downer, who had been brought as a child from her native Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.  Mr. and Mrs. Cox rounded out useful and successful careers in East Township, where both passed away.  They were the parents of the following children: Lorinda, the wife of James Crawford, of Los Angeles, California; A. M., of East Township; J. E., of New Philadelphia, Ohio; Elmer E., of East Township; Ephrain E., of Salina, Kansas; Casper G., of Columbiana County, Ohio; Perry O., of East Township; Orson O.; and Jennie, the wife of Calvin Creighton, of Mount Union, Ohio.
     Orson O. Cox is indebted of District School No. 1, of East Township, for his education, and to the teaching of his father for his agricultural training.  He was reared to the pursuits of the soil and remained under the parental roof until the time of his marriage, when he was twenty-six years of age, at which time he began operations on his own account on a property east of his present location, which he rented for twelve years.  He then bought his present farm, known as Grand View Fruit Farm, a tract of fifty-six acres which he has brought to a high state of cultivation, and on which he has erected modern buildings and installed up-to-date equipment and improvements.  Mr. Cox has met with much success in the raising of thoroughbred White Leghorn chickens, a field of business endeavor in which he has built up a large patronage and something of a reputation, and has also been more than ordinarily prosperous in his operations as a grower of berries and peaches, both of which are of an excellent quality and meet with a ready sale.  He is thorough, systematic and painstaking in his work, and is truly typical of the most worthy and substantial agricultural element in Carroll County.
     In April, 1898, Mr. Cox married Miss Bertha Moore, who was born in Augusta Township, Carroll County, daughter of Samuel and Sophia (Township) Moore, natives of Ireland, and to this union there have been born three children:  Gracie N., Duane Russell and Ralph Arnelda.  Mr. and Mrs. Cox are members of the Presbyterian Church, in which Mr. Cox is an elder.  In politics he is a republican.  As a man of public spirit, with the interests of his communication at heart, he has taken an active and helpful part in various township movements, and has rendered satisfactory and conscientious service in the capacity of member of the Board of Township Trustees, an office which he filled for-two terms.  As a fraternalist he has been through the chairs of Tent No. 1316, K. O. T. M., of Hanover, Ohio.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co. - 1891 - Page 899