Cobb, Clinton L – Cobbett, Thomas
Cobb, Clinton L
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 25, 1842, in Elizabeth City, N. C. He was elected to the forty-first, forty-second, and forty-third congresses, serving on the committees on revolutionary pensions, war claims and chairman of freedmen's affairs.
Cobb, Cyrus
artist, author, poet, was born Aug. 6, 1834, in Malden, Mass. He is an artist and sculptor of Boston who, besides writing much occasional verse, has published Veterans of the Grand Army, a novel.
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, Howell
lawyer, soldier, congressman, governor, was born Sept. 7, 1815, in Cherry Hill, Ga. He was a presidential elector in 1836; and was elected a representative in congress in 1842; reelected in 1844, 1846 and 1848, and during his latter term was elected speaker. On his retirement from congress he was chosen governor of Georgia. In 1855 he was again elected to congress, and on the accession of Mr. Buchanan to the presidency, went into his cabinet as secretary of the treasury. He took a prominent part in the rebellion of 1861, and was a member of the so-called confederate con. gress, and a brigadier-general. He died Oct. 9, 1868, in New York city.
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.
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, Seth Wallace
soldier, merchant, congressman, was born Dec. 5, 1838, in Southampton county, Va. In 1861 he joined a volunteer company from his native county, and served throughout the war in the army of northern Virginia.
In 1867 he moved to St. Louis, Mo., commencing as a clerk in a grain commission house; and since 1870 has continued in that business on his own account. He is president of the Merchants' exchange of St. Louis; and president of the Merchants' Bridge company. He has served with distinction in the fifty-second, fiftythird and fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat.
Cobb, Silas B
pioneer, merchant, philanthropist, was born Jan. 23, 1812, in Montpelier, Vt. For years he was the controlling spirit in the Chicago and Galena railroad, now the Chicago and North Western, and in the Beloit and Madison railroad. When the new university of Chicago sought to secure $1,000,000 for its buildings, Mr. Cobb came forward at the critical moment and gave $150,000, which assured the success of the undertaking.
The Cobb Lecture hall now stands on the university campus, a monument to his liberality, and the university is pledged to replace it, should it ever be destroyed.
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, Sylvanus
author, was born in 1823, in Waterville, Maine. He was the author of The King's Talisman; The Patriot Cruiser; Ben Hamed; and other works. He died July 20, 1887, in Hyde Park, Mass. cobb, tnOMAS R., lawyer, congressman, was born July 2, 1828, in Lawrence county, Ind. He was a state senator from 1858 to 1866; removed to Vincennes, Ind., in 1867; was president of the democratic state convention in 1876, and a delegate to the democratic national convention of that year. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-fifth, fortysixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.
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.