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Daniel Coxe and the D. S. and S.
The loss of Superintendent Daniel Coxe
What's on this page:
- Daniel Coxe obituary
- Miniature locomotives
- Daniel Coxe Memorial School
- Locomotives in education
Daniel Coxe obituary
KILLED BY HIS INVENTION.
A Man Who Built a Little Railroad Met Death by an Accident. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Sept. 6, 1895
Daniel Coxe of Drifton, son of Alexander Coxe, who was a brother to the late Eckley B. Coxe, was killed tonight at his home. He was a mechanical genius and had constructed in the rear of his residence a railroad about four miles long, upon which he ran a five-horsepower locomotive, which he had constructed himself. While running this engine this evening it left the track, turned over and Coxe fell under it. Daniel Coxe was superintendent of the Delaware, Susquehanna and Schuylkill Railroad and has been influential about the extensive coal mines in the vicinity of Drifton.
San Francisco Call, vol. 78, no. 99, September 7, 1895
A longer obituary:
American Railway Master Mechanics Association 1896 publication.
Miniature locomotives
D. S. & S. Miniature Locomotive # 3 was the locomotive that Daniel Coxe was riding when he died is at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, PA.
D. S. & S. Miniature Locomotive #3.
D. S. & S. Miniature Locomotive #3.
D.S.&S. Miniature Locomotive # 4
Another of Daniel Coxe’s locomotives is located at the Eckley Miner’s Museum in Eckley, PA.
D. S. & S. Miniature Locomotive #4.
D. S. & S. Miniature Locomotive #4.
Daniel Coxe Memorial School
To honor Daniel Coxe, the Coxe family constructed the Daniel Coxe Memorial School at Washington & Chestnut Streets in Freeland, PA.
Daniel Coxe Memorial School.
Daniel Coxe Memorial School.
Both miniature locomotives played a part in education.
Below is a picture of the Mining & Mechanical Institute (MMI) mechanical drawing class of 1908.
Eckley Coxe opened the Industrial School for Miners and Mechanics in 1879. In 1888 it became The Mining & Mechanical Institute. Today it is called MMI Preparatory School.
Sample set of locomotive drivers can be seen in the forefront, as well as pictures of the full size D. S. & S. locomotives along the wall and other locomotive sections on the blackboard.