COCHRAN, WM. J.

COCHRAN, CHAMBERS

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Date: 4/19/2019 at 14:50:54

Keokuk City
(P.O. Keokuk)

COCHRAN, WM. J ., attorney at law; was born in Crawford Co.. Penn., where the village of Cochranton is now located, Jan. 28, 1814. In 1843, he located at West Point, Lee Co., Iowa, and there engaged in the practice of law, having been admitted to the bar of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg in 1841. Mr. Cochran served in the Legislature during the time he was a resident of West Point, and introduced the bill creating Keokuk a half shire town. In December, 1846, he removed to Keokuk, resided here until 1851, when he purchased a farm in Des Moines Tp., this county, and resided there until November, 1866, when he returned to Keokuk, where he has resided ever since. Mr. Cochran married Elizabeth Chambers, May 19, 1844; she was born in Allegany Co., N. Y. They have two children—John P. and Glenn L.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879