COBB, Luman

COBB

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 5/30/2021 at 16:01:47

Luman Cobb
Luman Cobb, one of the representative men of Douglas township, Ida County, was born in Genesee County, New York, August 6, 1824, a son of Useal and Sally (Phelps) Cobb, the former a native of Pennsylvania, and the latter of Monroe County, New York. They afterward located in Iowa, and both died at Mt. Pleasant, Henry County, the father at the age of eighty-six years, and the mother aged sixty-five years. They reared a family of eleven children. The father was a farmer by occupation, a Whig in his political views, and both were members of the Methodist Church. Two of their sons, Luman and Gary, took part in the late war.
Luman Cobb, our subject, was reared to the age of fourteen years in Genesee County, New York, was then in Chautauqua County, that State, until 1853, and next located near Plattville, Grant County, Wisconsin, August 11, 1862, he enlisted in the Thirty-third Wisconsin Infantry, Company D, for three years, or during the war; was in the siege of Vicksburg, on General Banks’ expedition up the Red river, at the battle of Nashville, and was honorably discharged at Madison, Wisconsin. From that time until 1879 Mr. Cobb was a resident of Grant County, but in the latter year purchased eighty acres of improved land in Douglas township, Ida county, where he has a good residence, 22 x 24 feet, with an L, 12 x 16 feet, and a fine barn.
In Chautauqua County, New York, at the age of twenty-three years, our subject was united in marriage with Cordelia Francis, a native of Erie County, that State, and a daughter of Thomas and Sally (Westover) Francis. They reared a family of eleven children. The father was a farmer by occupation, a Democrat in political views, religiously, a member of the Baptist Church, and his death occurred in Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Cobb have three children: James U., married, had seven children, and resides in Woodbury county; Colonel, married, and has two children; and Lee H., married and resides in this township. They lost one child at the age of three years. Mr. Cobb affiliates with the Republican party, is a member of the G. A. R., William Baker Post, and both he and his wife are identified with the Methodist Church.
Source: Biographical History of Crawford, Ida, and Sac Counties, Iowa, 1893, p.494