Stephen Angus Douglas Cox

Born in 1863, Stephen Angus Douglas Cox was an American writer whose career bridged local journalism and popular historical adventure fiction. Library of Congress authority data identifies him as born in Macon County, Illinois, later moving to Humboldt, Kansas, in 1878, where he went on to found the Humboldt Herald in 1887 and publish it for sixteen years.

Cox is especially associated with boys' adventure stories tied to American history. Records from the University of Kansas and other library sources connect him to the long-running Liberty Boys of '76 series under the pen name Harry Moore, shared later with Cecil Burleigh. Modern readers are most likely to encounter him through surviving titles such as The Dare Boys of 1776, The Dare Boys with General Greene, The Dare Boys in Vincennes, The Dare Boys in Virginia, and Harry's Newspaper, which remain available in digital library collections.

He died in 1944. Although not widely remembered today, Cox belongs to the lively world of dime novels and serialized fiction that helped shape popular reading for young audiences in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.