Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Cobb, W R 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

W. R. Cobb, Secretary and Treasurer of the Sterling Gazette Company and its 
managing editor, was born in Elizabeth City, N. C., Oct. 4, 1846. The greater 
part of his life since reaching manhood has been given to his newspaper 
profession. He was for four years an officer in the United States Navy. He 
came West in the fall of 1876; taught a country school for a year and a half; 
assumed editorial charge of the Fulton (Whiteside Co.) Journal in 1879; became 
editor and secretary of the Sterling Gazette in 1880; and upon the 
reorganization of that institution in 1882 was made its general business 
manager and editor. Although a Southern man and a slave-holder by birth, Mr. 
Cobb's sympathies and "material aid " were with and for the Union during the 
late war. In politics he has always been a Republican. His people are among 
the oldest of the settlers of the "Old North State," the old homestead having 
been in the possession of his family for over 200 years. His mother and 
brother yet live in the ancestral home. Mr. Cobb married Laura E. John, of 
Elizabeth City, N. C., in 1869. There have been seven children by this 
marriage, three of whom, two daughters and a son, are living.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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