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Papers 1839-1936.

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The William C. Cochran family papers consist of correspondence, genealogical records, photographs, research files, and writings. Included here are a large number of letters of the extended Cochran family--though the bulk is to William C. Cochran. The correspondence provides a glimpse of the family and their private affairs in Ohio, as well as William C. Cochran's experiences growing up during the Civil War and as an adult. The papers also document Cochran's career as partrician historian. Much of his later life was spent compiling information from newspapers and other sources, resulting in two major unpublished biographes of Jacob D. Cox. The Cochran family papers also contain a small number of files related to Jacob D. Cox and Cochran's father, William Cochran. Of significance are ten letters written to Jacob D. Cox by William T. Sherman that discuss interpretations of the Civil War, and a notebook containing transcriptions of letters Cox sent to his wife during the Civil War. The William C. Cochran family papers are rich in detail about Oberlin College, the role of its alumnis in the Civil War, and about several great families connected to Oberlin.

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Oberlin College

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Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. In 1835, Oberlin became one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans, and in 18...

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

William C. Cochran family.

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William C. Cochran (1848-1936), lawyer, scholar and trustee, was born in Oberlin, Ohio in 1848. His father, William Cochran, died before his birth, and his mother, Helen Finney Cochran, subsequently remarried in 1849 to Jacob D. Cox. Graduating from Oberlin College in 1869, Cochran joined the family in Washington, D.C; there, he served as a clerk (until 1870) at the Dept. of the Interior which was headed by his stepfather, Jacob D. Cox. Returning in 1871 from Europe, Cochran studied law and open...

Cochran, William, 1814-1847

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Cochran, William Cox, 1848-1936

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Jacob Dolson Cox was a Union Army general and politician from Ohio. During the Civil War, Cox headed the Dept. of the Kanawha, commanded the IX Corps of the Army of Virginia, and in 1863, assumed command of the District of Ohio and of the 3rd Division, XXIII Corps. After the war, he was Governor of Ohio (1866-67) and was President Grant's Secretary of the Interior (1869-1870). He was also president of the Wabash Railroad and was elected to Congress in 1876. He authored Military Reminiscences of ...

Cox, Jacob Dolson, 1828-1900

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Jacob Dolson Cox was born in Montreal (then located in the British colonial Province of Lower Canada) on October 27, 1828. His father and mother respectively were Jacob Dolson Cox and Thedia Redelia (Kenyon) Cox, both Americans and residents of New York. His father Jacob was of Dutch origin, descended from Hanoverian emigrant Michael Cox (Koch) who arrived in New York in 1702. His mother Thedia was descended from Revolutionary War Connecticut soldier Payne Kenyon who was there when British Gener...