Frank Langdon WILCOX

                   SOURCES:  
    1. This Family Group was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell  Nicholls, of Gilbert, Arizona.
    2. Budget Ring Binder - Descendants of John Wilcox 1st of CT (page 17)
    3. Walter Eli Wilcox Temple Records - Maria's Book #D (pages 52,53,54)
    4. Book #RD974.6ENC - Encycolpedia of Connecticut Biography - (pages 37-39) - (quotation's from book - "The Motherland of the Wilcox Family is around Berlin Hartford, Middletown, Meriden and Farmington in the State of Connecticut, and almost every Wilcox in the United States traces his ancestry back to that spot of earth which to them is Mecca." Some of those in the family who achieved some fame was: Lloyd Wheaton Bowers, solicitor - General of the United States serving under President Taft; Honor Leonard Wilcox - Chief Justice of New Hampshire; Honor Preston B. Plumb - United States Senator from Kansas - "John Wilcox (the founder of the American Families), who came with Thomas Hooker to settle Hartford, held the office of Surveyor of Hartford in 1643 and Selectman in 1650.  He died there = his name is on the Founders Monument."
    5. Book #RD974.6C - Commenorative Biographical Record of Hartford County, CT (pages 668 - 670) - (from Book - "Will ever be known for 2 most vital contributions of the Nations")
       [1]. The implatation of civil liberty
       [2] The birth and devolpment of American Industry.
    6. Book "Your Ancestros" - found at Mesa, AZ FHC.

NOTES:
    1. Major Frank Langdon Wilcox - attended Berlin Academy, until age 12 - then he went to St.Paul's School - Concord, NH Gradurated 1876 and entered Trinity College - Hartford. He graduated in 1880 with AB degree.  He went to work for Peck,Stow & Wilcox Company as a clerk.  In 1885 he was the manager of Kensington Shops, Treasurer of Iron Bridge Company, Ex. Vice President of Peck, Stow & Wilcox Company, Preisdent of Fidelity Trust Company of Hartford, Director of Pheonix Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford, the Berlin Savings , American Hosiery, President Of J.O. Smith Manufacturing Company.
    2. The Wilcox family of East Berlin, has been most prominently associated and identified with the history of Connecticut since the days of earliest  settlement.  At one time in the town of Berlin, there were 25 voters in the Wilcox family - today Frank Langdon Wilcox is the only voter in the name of the town.  His father decends from Captain John Wilcox who cammanded 1000 lances at Battle of Hastings in 1066 - against William the Conquerer.