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Cobb, R. W – Cobun, Marshal W

Cobb, R. W

lawyer, state senator, governor, was born Feb. 25, 1829, in Ashville, Ala. He was elected state senator in 1872; was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1875; was reelected state senator in 1876; and was elected president of the senate. He was elected governor of Alabama in 1878, and re-elected in 1880, serving until 1882.

Cobb, Stephen Alonzo

soldier, congressman, was born June 17, 1833, in Madison, Maine. He served through the war, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was mayor of Wyandotte in 1862 and 1868; a member of the state senate in 1862, 1869, and 1870; and speaker of the house in 1872. He was elected to the forty-third congress. He died in August, 1878.

Cobb, Sylvanus

clergyman, author, was born in July, 1799, in Norway, Maine.

He was a universalist clergyman of Massachusetts; and editor for many years of The Christian Freeman. He was the author of The New Testament, with Explanatory Notes; Compend of Divinity; and Discussions. He died Oct. 31, 1866, in East Boston, Maine.

Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes

soldier, lawyer, author, was born April 10, 1823, in Cherry Hill, Ga. He was a Georgia lawyer who served as brigadier-general in the confederate army during the civil war.

He was the author of Digest of the Laws of Georgia; Historical Sketch of Slavery from the Earliest Periods; and Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States. He was killed Dec. 13, 1862, in the battle of Fredericksburg, Va.

Cobb, Thomas W

lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born in 1784, in Columbia county, Ga. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1817 to 1821, and again from 1823 to 1824. He was a senator in congress from 1824 to 1828; and was subsequently chosen a judge of the superior court. He was the author of many political essays. He died Feb. 1, 1830, in Greensborough, Ga.

Cobb, Willard Adams

journalist, was born July 20, 1842, in Rome, N. Y. In 1864 he graduated from Hamilton college of Clinton, N. Y.; was regent of the New York state university in 1884; and in 1895 was appointed state civil service commissioner, and is still a member and president of that body. He is the author of The Daily Journal of Lockport, N. Y.

Cobb, Williamson R. W

congressman, was born in 1807, in Ray county, Tenn. In 1845 he was elected to the state legislature, where he remained two years.

In 1847 he was elected a representative in congress from Alabama, in which capacity he served his adopted state by successive re-elections down to 1860. He was killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol in November, 1864, in Alabama.

Cobbett, Thomas

clergyman, author, was born in 1608, in England. He was a nonconformist English clergyman who came to America in 1637, and was minister at Ipswich from 1656 till his death. He was the author of Infant Baptism; Civil Magistrate's Power in Matters of Religion; Practical Discourse of Prayer; and The Honor Due from Children to Their Parents. He died Nov. 5, 1685, in Ipswich, Mass.

Cobun, Marshal W

soldier, farmer, legislator, was born March 1, 1838, in Virginia. During the war he served in the federal army; has served two terms in the Kansas house of representatives, and one term in the state senate. He is a successful farmer of Hoisington, Kan.; and was president of the board of commissioners for Kansas at the World's Columbian exposition.