Jennings Cox
Jennings Stockton Cox Jr. | |
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Baltimore, Maryland | |
| Died | August 31, 1913 (aged 46) |
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| Known for | Inventing the daiquiri |
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.[1]
Biography
Cox was born in
Cox attended
Invention of the Daiquiri
It is said that the drink was invented when Cox ran out of gin while entertaining American guests. Wary about serving local rum straight up, Cox added lime juice and sugar to improve the rum’s taste. Consumption of the drink remained localized until 1909, when Admiral Lucius W. Johnson Sr, a US Navy medical officer, tried Cox’s drink. Johnson subsequently introduced it to the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C., and to ports of call around the world. Through to the navy's supply of vitamins by adding citrus to their rum in hope to defeat scurvy, he amongst other had acquired a taste for citrus. So the success of the newly born Daiquiri at the Army and Navy was enormous.[8]
Other sources point to Cox creating the drink from his rations of Bacardi, limes, and sugar. His associate, Francesco Domenico Pagliuchi, a Cuban engineer, explained the origin in a 1948 editorial letter in the newspaper El Pais Havana.
Personal life
Cox died on August 31, 1913, in New York City.[7] He lived in Santiago de Cuba from the late 1890s until 1913, when failing health prompted him to return to New York.[7] The writer and journalist Richard Harding Davis wrote his novel Soldiers of Fortune (1897) while a guest at Cox's house (O’Toole, 79).
Cox was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, University Club of New York, University Club of Pittsburgh, and the Rainier Club of Seattle.[7]
See also
- Wet Wellies: Daiquiri history
- G.J.A. O’Toole, The Spanish War: An American Epic 1898 (New York: W.W. Norton, 1989), 79.
- Daiquiri Story
References
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- ^ "Rev. John Nelson McJilton". The Baltimore Sun. 2010-08-29. pp. A9. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
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- ^ King, Moses (1899). Notable New Yorkers of 1869-1899: A Companion Volume to King's Handbook of New York City. Moses King.
- ^ a b c d Industry Week. Penton Pub. 1913.
- ^ "Wet Willies". 2005-12-11. Archived from the original on 2005-12-11. Retrieved 2023-04-30.