Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1883 — Sunset Cox. [ARTICLE]

Sunset Cox.

The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch says of the Hon. Samuel S. Cox, who was in 1853-54 editorial writer for the Columbus Statesman: “It was late in the afternoon, and the sun was just dipping below the horizon. Sunset Cox rushed into the room. ‘Boys,’ he said, ‘did you see that sunset? It’s the most beautiful thing I ever saw.’ And, seizing some paper from the proof press and leaning over the imposing-stone, he wrote the famous pen-picture that gave him the life-long sobriquet of ‘Sunset* Cox. The article was taken to the compositors and put In type piece by piece,-and it appeared in that evening’s number of the paper. ”