Hon. Samuel B. Cochrane

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Husband Hon. Samuel B. Cochrane ¹

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           Born: 17 Jan 1860 - Pine (later Boggs) Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 2
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         Father: William Cochran (1813/1813-1876) 3
         Mother: Mary S. Quigley (      -      ) 3 4

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Samuel B. Cochrane

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He was reared on a farm and received his education in the common schools, Dayton academy, Edinboro' Normal school, and Central college, Indiana, Pennsylvania, from which latter educational institution he was graduated in the scientific department in 1883. From 1877 to 1883 he taught in the common schools to obtain the means to educate himself. After graduating he became principal of the Cumberland schools of Indianapolis, Indiana, and in the year 1885 was elected principal of the Freeport public schools of Armstrong County, which position he held for three years. In 1888 he helped found the teachers' Review, and Training school of Kittanning, which opened its career in 1889 with an attendance of two hundred and fifty students.
He was elected as a member of the Pennsylvania legislature and served in that body on the committees on education, railroads and manufactures. He was re-nominated as the republican candidate in 1890. He resided with his mother, who lived one mile from Kittanning.
Hon. Samuel B. Cochrane was a member of the Jr. O. U. A. M., the I. O. H. and Master of Lodge No. 239, F. and A. M. He was an earnest republican and an active school man.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 343.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 344.

3 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 381.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 344, 392.