Philip Galley Cochran and Sarah B. Moore

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Husband Philip Galley Cochran ¹

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           Born: 7 May 1849 - Lower Tyrone Twp, Fayette Co, PA 1
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         Father: James "Little Jim" Cochran (1823-1894) 3 4 5
         Mother: Clarissa Huston (      -1896) 4 5 6

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       Marriage: 25 Sep 1879 2

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Wife Sarah B. Moore ²

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1 M James Philip Cochran ²

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General Notes: Husband - Philip Galley Cochran

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He received his early education in the public schools, and then became a student at Bethany college, West Virginia. From there he went to Otterbein university, Ohio. In the midst of his college course he was summoned to be his father's assistant in the management of the latter's vast business interests. James Cochran's business had become too extensive for him to supervise alone, and he turned naturally to his oldest son, Philip, as his trusted assistant. Philip reluctantly left his college course uncompleted to take his share of the work and responsibility in the management of the Cochran coke and other business interests. Preparatory to this he took a business course in a Pittsburgh commercial college. Thus thoroughly equipped he took his place as a clerk in his father's office to learn the business in detail. He soon mastered it and became an indispensable factor in the business. Philip G. Cochran started in his business career in the 1870's. For twenty-five years he gave himself up to the huge undertaking of developing and perfecting the business of James Cochran & Sons, which firm afterwards became Brown & Cochran. In addition to his services in this firm of extensive coke manufacturers, of which he was a member, Philip became the leading spirit in the Washington Coal and Coke Company, another great coke and coal mining firm. This company's capital stock was $1,200,000. Philip became its president. He proved to be a masterly executive. He had the inborn business sense which no school or college can supply, and he had also the culture and training of the college. When James Cochran laid down the burden of his life-work in 1894, Philip G. Cochran took it up as his natural successor. Under his father's will he became a trustee of the vast estate conjointly with Mark Mordecai Cochran, one of Union Uniontown's leading lawyers. Mark M. Cochran was a son of that Mordecai Cochran who, in 1843, made that historic commercial venture to Cincinnati and sold Foundryman Greenwood his two flat boat loads of coke. Philip G. Cochran became the executive head of the Cochran companies. He labored unremittingly under his great responsibilities, and was besides the most public spirited citizen of the town of Dawson, where he lived, giving freely his time and energy to the advancement of any project for the public welfare. Too close application to business undermined his health and aggravated a functional heart trouble from which, with other complications, he died June 1, 1899, at the age of fifty. By his death Dawson lost its foremost citizen. A mere enumeration of the executive positions he filled will indicate how wide-reaching was his influence. He was president of the Brown & Cochran Coke Company, the Washington Coal & Coke Company, the Juniata Coke Company, the Dawson Bridge Company, and the First National Bank of Dawson.
Philip G. Cochran's business successor was his associate trustee under his father's will, Mark Mordecai Cochran, before alluded to.
His wife and son together built a Methodist Episcopal church in Dawson in memory of the husband and father. This cost $12,000, and was a beautiful memorial to the upright life of Philip G. Cochran.

1 Editor, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 537.

2 Editor, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 538.

3 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 785, 789, 804.

4 Editor, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 537, 996.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 402.

6 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 805.