Editing Archibald Cox (section)

===Family and ancestors===
Cox was born in [[Plainfield, New Jersey]] in 1912, the son of Archibald and Frances "Fanny" Bruen Perkins Cox, the eldest of seven children.{{efn|Cox's siblings were: Elizabeth "Betty" (born 1913), Mary "Molly" (1916), Robert (1919), Maxwell (1922), Louis (1924) and Rowland (1928).{{sfn|Gormley|1997|p=8}}}} His father Archibald Sr. (Harvard College, 1896; Harvard Law School, 1899<ref name="FathObit">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/03/01/archives/obituary-4-no-title.html|title=Archibald Cox: New York Lawyer dies at Age of 56 in Home at Rahway, N.J.|work=New York Times|date=February 28, 1931|page=30|access-date=March 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725215433/https://www.nytimes.com/1931/03/01/archives/obituary-4-no-title.html|archive-date=July 25, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>) was the son of a Manhattan lawyer, Rowland Cox, and rose to prominence as a patent and trademark lawyer, and who wrote ''Cox's Manual on Trade Marks''.{{efn|''See'' {{harvnb|Gormley|1997|p=4}}. The volume edited by Cox's grandfather was: {{cite book|last=Cox|first=Rowland|title=American Trade Mark Cases: A Compilation of All the Reported Trade Mark Cases Decided in the American Courts prior to the year 1871. With an Appendix Containing the Leading English Cases …|location=Cincinnati|publisher=R. Clarke|year=1871}}}} When Rowland Cox died suddenly in 1900, Archibald Sr. inherited his father's solo practice almost right out of law school. He built on that start to become successful in his own right.<ref name="NYTObit">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/30/nyregion/archibald-cox-92-is-dead-helped-prosecute-watergate.html|title=Archibald Cox, 92, Is Dead; Helped Prosecute Watergate|work=New York Times|date=May 30, 2004|page=N32|access-date=March 11, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160620024941/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/30/nyregion/archibald-cox-92-is-dead-helped-prosecute-watergate.html|archive-date=June 20, 2016|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> His most prominent achievement was securing the red cross as the trademark of [[Johnson & Johnson]].{{sfn|Gormley|1997|p=4}} Compared to the lawyers on his mother's side, his father (as Archibald Jr. reflected late in his life) did not participate much in public service, although he had "done a few things for [[Woodrow Wilson]] … at the time of the peace conference" and was president of the local Board of Education.{{sfn|Hilbink|2000|p=1:22}} He also served as a member of the New Jersey Rapid Transit Commission.<ref name="FathObit"/>