Jacob Winfield Cocklin

COCKLIN, KNIGHT

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/19/2004 at 18:21:17

J. W. Cocklin, Jackson twp., farmer, Sec. 24; P.O. Winterset; born in Cumberland county, Ohio, in 1833; he removed with his parents in 1834 to Wayne county, Ohio, where his boyhood was spent, until his twenty-first year; he again moved with his father to Washington county, Iowa, and remained until the year 1857; he again returned to Ohio, where, in the year 1860, he was married to Mary A. Knight, a native of Wayne county; in 1866, himself and family removed to Washington county and remained there two years, and came to Winterset, Madison county and engaged in the boot and shoe trade; he continued both manufacturing and selling for ten years; then in order to “give the boys a chance,” he began farming; they are the parents of two living children: Samuel Willard and Carrie Maggie.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 628