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Cochrane, Aaron V. S – Cocke, William M

Cochrane, Aaron V. S

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 14, 1858, in Coxsackie, N. Y. In 1887 and 1888 he was police justice of Hudson; and was elected district attorney of Columbia county in 1889, and served three years.

He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Cochrane, Alexander G

lawyer, congressman, was born March 20, 1845, in Allegheny City, Pa. He was elected to the forty-fourth congress as a democrat.

Cochrane, Clark B

lawyer, congressman, was born May 31, 1815, in New Boston, N. H. He was a member of the New York legislature in 1843 and 1844; and was a representative in the thirtyfifth congress from New York. He was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress; and again elected to the assembly in 1865.

He died March 5, 1867, in Albany, N. Y.

Cochrane, Clark B

lawyer, poet, was born Feb. 9, 1843, in New Boston, N.

H. In 1865 he was admitted to the bar, and ten years later engaged in mercantile pursuits. He is the author of a volume entitled Minora and Other Poems.

Cochrane, Elizabeth

journalist, was born in 1867, in Cochrane's Mills, Pa.

She has attained a national reputation as a contributor of journalistic work.

Cochrane, John

soldier, surveyor, lawyer, congressman, was born in Palatine, N. Y. He was surveyor of the port of New York for four years; and was elected to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. He served as a general of volunteers in the union army in 1861 and 1862; and was subsequently elected attorney-general of the state of New York. In 1864 he was nominated for the office of vice-president of the United States on the ticket with J. C. Fremont.

Cochrane, Samuel B

lawyer, legislator, was born Jan. 17, 1860, in Kittanning, Pa. He has attained success in the practice of law in his native city; and since 1889 has been a member of the house of representatives of the Pennsylvania state legislature.

Cocke, James Richard

physician, author, was born in 1863. He is a physician of Boston; and the author of Hypnotism; and Blind Leaders of the Blind, a novel.

Cocke, John

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1772, in Brunswick, Va. He became a member of the first legislature of the state in 1796; was speaker of the house for many years; and was also a member of the senate. From 1819 to 1827 he was a representative in congress from his adopted state. He died Feb. 16, 1854, in Rutledge, Tenn.

Cocke, Philip St. G

soldier, was born in 1809, in Virginia. He was made brigadier-general in the confederate army in 1861, and commanded the fifth brigade at the first battle of Bull Run. He died Dec. 26, 1861.

Cocke, William

soldier, state legislator, jurist, was born in 1740, in Virginia. He became a general of militia; served. in the state legislature in 1813; and became one of the judges of the circuit court. He was again a senator from 1799 to 1805; and in 1814 was appointed Indian agent for the Chickasaw nation.

Cocke, William M

congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1849.