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| Short Name: | C. C. Cox |
| Full Name: | Cox, Christopher Christian, 1816-1882 |
| Birth Year: | 1816 |
| Death Year: | 1882 |
Cox, Christopher Christian, M.D., was a Maryland physician, and long prominent in the public service. Born at Baltimore, Aug. 28, 1816, and graduated at Yale College, 1835. He practised medicine in Baltimore, 1838, and in Talbot County, Maryland, 1843. In 1861 he became Brigade Surgeon U. S. A., and resided in Washington. He died Nov. 25, 1882. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. His hymns in common use are:—
1. Silently the shades of evening. Evening. Written in 1840 or 1846, and published in Woodworth's Cabinet, 1847, with music. It is much used in American hymn-books.
2. The burden of my sins, 0 Lord. Lent. Appeared in the Cantate Domino, Boston, 1859, together with two additional originals and two translations. These hymns are unknown to English collections. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Texts by C. C. Cox (8) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haste not, haste not, do not rest | C. C. Cox (Translator) | English | 3 |
| I love thee, O most gracious Lord | C. C. Cox (Translator) | English | 3 |
| I love thee, O thou God of mine | C. C. Cox (Author) | 2 | |
| Silently the shades of evening, Gather round my lowly door | Christopher C. Cox (Author) | English | 127 |
| The burden of my sins, O Lord | C. C. Cox (Author) | 3 | |
| The damps of death are coming fast | C. C. Cox (Author) | English | 2 |
| We are living, we are dwelling In a grand and awful time | C. C. Cox (Author) | English | 1 |
| Without haste, [and] without rest | C. C. Cox (Translator) | English | 5 |
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