Wesley Lyman Cochran

COCHRAN, COOK, HAMBLIN

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/19/2004 at 21:41:06

W. L. Cochran, who is farming on section 24, Grand River township, was born upon the family homestead in that township on the 10th of June, 1874, a son of Wesley and Elizabeth (Hamblin) Cochran, a record of whose lives is given elsewhere in this work. He acquired a common-school education, and through assisting with the farm work as a boy received valuable training in agriculture. His father gave him two hundred and forty acres of fine land in Grand River township, and he has since added thereto eighty acres, making a, total of three hundred and twenty acres, which is in a high state of cultivation and produces excellent crops. He also raises stock quite extensively and finds that business profitable.

Mr. Cochran married Miss Bertha Cook, and they have two daughters, Marie and Helen. He supports the democratic party at the polls.