Cox College (LaGrange, Ga.)

found: NUCMC data from Atlanta Historical Society for Cox College and Conservatory (College Park, Ga.). Records, 1894-1939(Cox College; a.k.a. Southern Female College; est. 1843 by Cox family in La Grange, Ga.; relocated in Atlanta in an area known as Manchester in 1895; name changed to Southern Baptist College for Women)

found: Encyc. of So. Baptists(Cox College; private school for girls started by John Edmonds Dawson in Jan. 1843 at La Grange, Ga.; soon taken over by Milton E. Bacon; chartered under the name La Grange Female Seminary it became La Grange Collegiate Seminary for Young Ladies 2 years later; became Southern and Western Female College by another charter in 1852; Ichabod F. Cox took over school in 1857 and controlled until his death in 1887; during this period school was named for him and his family; Cox College moved to Manchester (now College Park) in 1895; in its new location became Southern Female College; retained strong Baptist connections)