The Nome nugget., 1930-01-11
NOTED METEOROLOGICAL
 PASSES TO REWARD

CHICAGO, Jan. 10, @-Henry Joseph Cox, aged sixty six met eorologst of the United States Weather Bureau, the most noted man in that line, died here today after a two years illness. Follow ing is an account of his life, at tainments, and hardships. as sub mftted to the Nome Nugget by the Associated Press:
 Professor Henry Joseph Cox had been engaged in district wealth CT forecasting longer than any other man in that service. It was a combina tion of cir cumstances and incidents that led him into that work when as . young man his ambition was to become a physician.
 The chief obstacles to his re- alizing the latter were the nec- essity of an immediate job when he was graduated at Harvard Uni versity and an early marriage. But he had been fascinated while at Harvard by the course in met eorology.
 Professor Cox began his career as private in the signal corps of the United States Army in 1885. He went with the weather bureau when it was transferred from the army signal corps to the department of agriculture and in time attained the highest title in the field servdce-principal met eorologtst.
 In 1929 he rounded out 45 years of service in the weather bureau and 35 years as district forecaster Tn the Chicago district, which in cludes the Great. Lakes region and extends to Kansas and the Dakot- az. He was called from that ser vice only on important research assignments.
 Born on his fathers small farm at Newton. Mass, April s, 1863 Professor Cox attended elementary and grammar schools at Newton and was graduated at Harvard in 1884. He was active in athletics at the university, principally base ball. and one year was a mem Der of the varsity baseball squad.
 After his enlistment in the sig nal corps. he bought copy of "Gray's Anatomy" and studied it thoroughly. his ambition still lean ing toward a career in medicine. The definite change came, how ever, in 1887, when he married Mary Cavanaugh of Somerville, Mass. They had two sons, Paul and Arthur. both whom served at the front in the American Ar my during the World War. Paul, a lieutenant in the first division '~S AluCu ot SNAb6OAS.
 The first six months of Profes- sor Cox's weather service was at training school at Fort Myer, Va. He spent similar period in Chic ago. then served year and a half at Boston, esta abfishing a forecasting station at Northfield, Vt, and served six years at New Haven, Conn When the wealth CT bureau was transferred from the army to the department of agriculture in 1891. Professor Cox was discharged as an observer sergeant, but remained with the bureau as civilian employee of the department of agriculture.
 He was an assistant at Chicago from 1894 to 1898. when the tit le of professor was conferred up on him. Eventually. he became principal meteorologist.
 In tho ChaeaUo dfstrlct So9 many years, millions of persons and dol lars depended upon the daily fore casts of Professor Cox. forecasts which were especially important to shipping on the Great Lakes Intimate with the geography of his district, he developed special weather service for corn and wheat growey and traders and for cran- berry and tobacco growers of Wis- consin.
 For two seasons he lived in the cranberry bogs of Wisconsin