Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-11
HIS SUN HAS SET!
Congressman Cox Passed Away
 Last Evening.
A BRILLIANT CAREER ENDED.
6e Died of Heart Failure and Was Con.
 scious to the Last.

He Achteved National Reputation by His Adroitness in Debate. ., NEW YORK, Sept 11.-Congressman
 Samuel Sullivan Cox died last evening l at S:3O o'clock at his home, No. 13 East
 Twelfth street. :. Two hours before he died his colored
 servant, who had just arrived from Washington, went to his bedside and Mrs. Cox asked her husband if he knew him. He answered ''yes," and pressed the mans hand, at the same time ten derly batting his wife on the shoulder.
 MT. Cox was conscious up to half an
 hour before his death. He then failed
 to recognize those around him. He had
 not spoken at any length since II o'clock
 in the morning, when he talked rather incoherently about the new States and of what he expected to do when he re. entered Congress next session. He arm with his hand just before losing consciousness.
 Mrs. Cox, Mrs. Hardenburg, sister of MT. Cox, and MT. N. J. Kearney, a close friend of the statesmen, were present when MT. Cox died. There were also ., number of intimate friends down stairs waiting for news from the sick chamber. :,
 The immediate cause of his death, Dr.. Lockwood says, was heart failure, super induced by peritonitis. NJ
 A large number of telegradgs of sym pathy from people among the most prominent in the country wore received during the day.
 Sketch of Ills Career.
 Samuel Sullivan Cox was born at Zanesville, Ohio, on September 30, 1894: His grandfather, James Cox, was also 2 Congressman, besides being 8 brigadier panara 10f ho Noxr, noted Democratic politician. Samuel's father left the old homestead at Mon- mouth, Ohio. shortly after Congress- man Cox's death, emigrating to Zanes- vile, where Samuel first saw light.
 After passing through an ordinary common school course the youth was sent to the Ohio University. Here he remained two years. leaving the State to attend the Brown University, at Providence, R. l., where he graduated in the class of 1s46. On his return to Ohio he opened up small law practice. The profession, however, soon became distasteful, and he relinquished it for a toW through Europe. His first book "A Buckeye Abroad" relates the story of his tour.
 in 1858 he became the editor of the ''Ohio Statesman" published at Colum- bus, and two years later he was ap- pointed secretary of legation to Peru by President Pierce. This was the begin ming of his political career. His eiec- tion to the Thirty-ffth Congress fol- lowed, and he was successively y returned to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses. In 1864 his defeat by the Republican candidate occurred, and in the spring of 1865 he moved to Now York city.
 His next literary work, Flight Years In Congress" was issued at this time, together with several amusing reminis- cences of travels. His first appearance as metropolitan candidate occurred in 1868, when he was elected over Starr, the Republican candidate. In 1870 he ran against Horace Greedy and was again elected. Two years later when he ran aga!nst Lyman Tremaine for Congressman-at-Large he was defeated. A few months afterward he was chosen to i'll the seat made vacant by the death of James Brooks.
 Since that period Mr. Cox has been almost constantly in Congress, and has achieved national reputation by his wit and vivacity and his adroitness in debate. Under President Cleveland's MT. Cox was Minister to Turkey, and would have represented ehe Ninth district in the forthcoming Congress.
 His well-known appellation of "Sun- get" was won for MT. Cox by glowing of a sunset which he once wrote. MT. Cox was prominent mem- ! per of the Tammany Society, though | never directly connected with the Tam many Hall political organization.