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Cobb, Darius

artist, was born Aug. 6, 1834, in Malden, Mass. In 1879 he painted Christ Before Pilate, and the reputation gained by this painting was instantaneous. Some of his other works are: For Their Sakes; Death of Judas; and King Lear.

Cobb, David

soldier, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 14, 1748, in Attleborough, Mass. He was judge of a county court; was elected to the legislature; and served as speaker from 1789 to 1793; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1793 to 1795. He was president of the state senate from 1801 to 1805; and lieutenant-governor of the state in 1809. He died April 17, 1839, in Taunton, Mass.

Cobb, Emory

banker, was born Aug. 30, 1831, in Dryden, N. Y. He received his education in the common schools of his county, Burt's Select school, and at the academy of Ithaca, N. Y. For many years he was president of the First National bank of Kankakee, Ill.; and has filled many important public offices in his city, county and state.

Cobb, George Pomroy

lawyer, legislator, was born April 13, 1841, in York, N. Y. He graduated from the law department of the university of Michigan, and served as a soldier in the civil war.

In 1881-82 he served as a member of the Michigan legislature from Bay county; and for six years, from 1888, was circuit judge of the eighteenth judicial circuit court of Michigan.

Cobb, George T

congressman, was born in October, 1813, in Morristown, N.

J. He was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-seventh congress.

He died Aug. 6, 1870.

Cobb, Howell

farmer, soldier, congressman, was born in 1770, in Granville, N. C. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1807 to 1812; and during the last war with England served with credit as a captain in the army. He died about 1820 in Georgia.

Cobb, Howell

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1795 in Savannah, Ga. He was a Georgia lawyer; and the author of Penal Code of Georgia; and a state senator in 1830.

Cobb, Isaac

journalist, poet, was born April 28, 1825, in Gorham, Maine.

Since 1865 he has been connected with the Portland Transcript. He has contributed to the leading magazines and newspapers of America, and is at present engaged in compiling a genealogy of the Cobb family. He has attained a national reputation in the world of literature.

Cobb, James E

soldier, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 5, 1835, in Thomaston, Ga. He was chosen one of the circuit judges of the state; and was reelected in 1880 and again in 1886. He was elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fiftysecond, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat.

Cobb, Jonathan Holmes

manufacturer, author, was born July 8, 1799, in Sharon, Mass. He was a manufacturer of Dedham, who founded the silk industry in the United States, and whose Manual of the Mulberry Tree and the Culture of Silk was once well known. He died March 12, 1882, in Dedham, Mass.

Cobb, Joseph Beckham

author, was born April 11, 1819, in Oglethorpe county, Ga. He was a southern author whose writings include The Creole, or the Siege of New Orleans, a novel; Mississippi Scenes; and Leisure Labors. He died Sept. 15, 1858, in Columbus, Ga.

Cobb, Lyman

educator, author, was born in 1800, in Massachusetts. He was a once prominent educator who, besides many text-books on spelling and mathematics, published The Evil Tendency of Corporal Punishment; and Just Standard for Pronouncing the English Language.

He died Oct. 26, 1864, in Colesburg, Pa.