Orange County FlArchives Biographies.....Cobb, Randolph Howell July 14, 1894 - 
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Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1923,  Vol. III pg.97

	COBB, RANDOLPH HOWELL, a representative younger member of the bar of 
Orange County, is established in the successful practice of his profession at 
Orlando, the county seat, and his is the distinction of having received the 
French Croix de Guerre in recognition of his gallant service with the American 
Expeditionary Forces in France in the late World war.
	Mr. COBB was born in the attractive and historic little City of 
Rahway, Union County, New Jersey, on the 14th of July, 1894, and is the only 
child of Rev. RODERICK PROVOST COBB and ANNIE (STEWART) COBB, who now maintain 
their home at Orlando, Florida.  Rev. RODERICK P. COBB was born in the State 
of Pennsylvania, and he has long been a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, in which he has served with marked ability and consecrated devotion.  
He was rector of the Episcopal Church at Rahway, New Jersey, until his only 
son, subject of this sketch, was five years old, and for six years thereafter 
he was rector of a church at Troy, New York, his pastoral charge for the 
following five years having been at Doylestown, Pennsylvania.  In 1911 he came 
with his family to Orlando, Florida, to assume the office of principal of the 
Cathedral School for Girls, in connection with the local cathedral of the 
Diocese of Florida.  He retained this office ten years, and has since lived 
retired, a revered and loved citizen of Orlando.
	RANDOLPH H. COBB acquired his preparatory education by attending the 
Yeates School at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and for two years thereafter he was 
a student in the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee.  In 1917 he 
graduated from the law department of the University of Florida, his reception 
of the degree of Bachelor of Laws having been virtually coincident with his 
admission to the bar of this state.  Shortly after his graduation the nation 
became involved in the World war, and the young barrister promptly 
subordinated professional ambition to tender his service to his country.  He 
volunteered for service of the United States Army, receiving preliminary 
training at Allentown, Pennsylvania, and on the 25th of December, 1917, he 
sailed with his command for France.  He was with the American Expeditionary 
Forces in overseas service for a period of seventeen and one-half months, 
lived up to the full tension of the great conflict, and after the armistice 
brought the war to a close he remained in France until June, 1919, on the 2nd 
of which month he arrived once more in his native land, his honorable 
discharge having been received at Camp Jackson on the 15th of December, 1919.  
In his service abroad Mr. COBB was with the Twenty-eighth Division of 
Chasseurs Alpine in Alsace and Belgium; with the Fourteenth Colonial Corps 
d’Armee on the Champagne front; with the Ninety-first and after with the First 
Division of the American Expeditionary Forces, with which he took part in the 
Argonne-Meuse offensive; with the Sixty-second French Division; with the 
Ardennes offensive movements until the signing of the historic armistice.  He 
received the Croix de Guerre from the French general in command of the Twenty-
eighth Division in the Mount Kemmel defense.  He perpetuates the more gracious 
memories and associations of his military career through the medium of his 
appreciative affiliation with the American Legion.
	Upon returning to his home at Orlando Mr. COBB here established 
himself in the practice of his profession, in which his success is fully 
justifying his choice of vocation.  He is aligned loyally in the ranks of the 
democratic party, and is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church.  
His law office is established in the McElroy building.


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