Harvey W. Cox

(1875-1944) lived near Red Cloud, Webster County, and in Lincoln. Educator, college president, became in 1920 the first president of Emory University at Atlanta, Georgia, after it had been a collection of semi-independent schools at nearby Oxford since 1836, serving for 22 years as he molded and expanded the University from a small Methodist institution into one of the South's foremost educational centers; previously was professor of philosophy at Nebraska Wesleyan and the University of Florida, where he had served as dean of teachers college for four years. Consult New York Times obituary, July 28, 1944, p. 13 and Kenneth Coleman and Charles S. Gurr eds, Dictionary of Georgia Biography, Vol 1 (University of Georgia Press, 1983) 224-226 and UNL Nebraska Alumnus, Fall 2002, p. 19.

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