Jennings Cox
Jennings Stockton Cox Jr. (November 23, 1866 – August 31, 1913) was an American mining engineer who is said to have invented the drink known as the daiquiri in the late nineteenth century while working as an expatriate engineer in Cuba. Biography Cox was born in Baltimore, Maryland on November 23, 1866. He was a descendant of James Cox, an early settler of Maryland and speaker of the House of Burgess of Maryland. His grandfather was John Nelson McJilton, Baltimore's first Superintendent of Baltimore City Public Schools who was ousted for opening black schools. His father was a stockbroker who served as the president of New York Athletic Club and was a member of the New York Stock Exchange. Cox attended San Francisco High School and Columbia School of Mines, graduating in 1887 as the school's first class of metallurgic engineers. After graduation, he was employed by the Government Survey of the Harlem Ship Canal, and became associated with the Pennsylvania Steel Company and Carnegie Steel Company. From 1897 until his death, he was the general manager of the Spanish-American Iron Company, situated near the village of Daiquirí, about 14 miles east south-east of Santiago de Cuba. Invention of the