Dade County FlArchives Biographies.....Cochran, Samuel  D. 1878 - 
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Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1923,  Vol. II  pg.134

	COCHRAN, SAMUEL D. is a veteran railroad man and one of the older 
passenger conductors of the Florida East Coast Railway.  His home has been in 
Miami for a number of years, and he has taken an active part in the industrial 
and business life of that city.
	He was born near Nashville, Tennessee, in 1878, and acquired a good 
education in the public schools and in the Southern Normal School and the 
Bowling Green Business College at Bowling Green, Kentucky.  He has been a 
railroad man since he was twenty-one.  In 1899 he became a brakeman with the 
Louisville & Nashville Railroad on a division in Tennessee.  In 1901 he came 
to Florida as a brakeman on the Florida East Coast, running out of St. 
Augustine.  In 1904 he was transferred to Miami, and that city has been his 
home now for nearly twenty years.  Mr. COCHRAN was promoted to passenger 
conductor in 1907, and he now has charge of trains numbered 29 and 30 between 
Miami and Fort Pierce.
	In September, 1920, Mr. COCHRAN bought the Lehman Electric Works, 
changing the name to the Miami Electric Works, and he is president of that 
important local industry.  Early in 1921 the business was opened in its new 
plant on Northeast Fourteenth Street at Miami Avenue, in a two-story building 
50 by 95 feet, equipped with the most modern machinery for electrical 
engineering and general electric business.  The technical man of the industry 
is EDWARD L. PRAETORIOUS, an electrical engineer of the highest qualifications 
and with several years of experience with some of the leading electrical 
concerns of the country.  The industry is growing rapidly, and is supplying an 
important and essential service to the city.
	Mr. COCHRAN is a member of the Order of Railway Conductors.  He 
married MARGARET ROCHFORD, of New York, and their two children are MARGARET 
and SAMUEL D., Jr.


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