Guide to the Alvin Joseph Cox Papers SC0738
Daniel Hartwig
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu
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Title: Alvin Joseph Cox papers
Creator:
Cox, Alvin Joseph.
Identifier/Call Number: SC0738
Identifier/Call Number: 15687
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1893-1945
Abstract: Stanford materials in this collection,
1893-1906, include student application materials, notes from a lecture series by Rev.
Charles R. Brown, class papers and exams, letters regarding his teaching position at
Stanford, his Stanford diplomas, invitation from Jane L. Stanford (1905), and three
photographs of the quad. Other papers include correspondence, 1907-1918; Cox's tribute to
John Maxson Stillman; report written while director of the Bureau of Science in the
Philippines, 1917; and a teaching certificate for Mary Amelia Barnett (Mrs. Alvin C. Cox),
1903.
This collection is open for research.
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ALvin Joseph Cox Papers (SC0738). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Alvin Joseph Cox earned his a.b., 1901, and M.A., 1902, at Stanford and his Ph.D. in
chemistry at the University of Breslau, Germany, 1904. He was an instructor in the Dept. of
Chemistry at Stanford from 1901-1907 (on leave 1902-04). He then became a chemist for the
Philippine government's Bureau of Science, serving as chief of the chemical laboratory and
then director of the Bureau (1914-19). He returned to San Francisco where he was a
consulting chemist; in 1931 he joined the state agriculture department.
Stanford materials in this collection, 1893-1906, include student application materials,
notes from a lecture series by Rev. Charles R. Brown, class papers and exams, letters
regarding his teaching position at Stanford, his Stanford diplomas, invitation from Jane L.
Stanford (1905), and three photographs of the quad. Other papers include correspondence,
1907-1918; Cox's tribute to John Maxson Stillman; report written while director of the
Bureau of Science in the Philippines, 1917; and a teaching certificate for Mary Amelia
Barnett (Mrs. Alvin C. Cox), 1903.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Diplomas.
Photoprints.
Philippines. Bureau of Science.
Cox, Alvin Joseph.
Box 1
Papers Series 11616215