Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Cochran, Robert Logan 1830 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 22, 2006, 12:21 am Author: John C. Odell (1916) ROBERT LOGAN COCHRAN. One of the older residents of Adams township, Carroll county, Indiana, is Robert Logan Cochran, who is a native of Burke county. North Carolina, having been born in July, 1830. He is the son of John and Mary (McGillard) Cochran, both of whom were born and reared in North Carolina. The grandparents had emigrated from the northern part of Ireland (County Antrim) to North Carolina. When Robert Logan Cochran was a mere lad, he emigrated with his parents from North Carolina to Pleasant Run, Tippecanoe township, Carroll county/Indiana. They made the trip overland by wagon and settled for the first time in section 10, in 1836. In the fall of that year they took up some canal land, which was purchased from the state. Mr. Cochran's parents lived the remainder of their lives in this township, the father dying at the age of seventy-seven and the mother at the age of eighty-two. They were the parents of six children, Benjamin, John, Samuel, William, James and Robert, all of whom are deceased except the subject of this sketch. Robert Logan Cochran received a good common-school education in the pioneer schools of Adams township. In 1858 he was married to Sarah Ingels and to them was born one son, Nathan, a railroad man now living in St. Louis. Mr. Cochran was married a second time in 1862 to Catherine Roller, and to them have been born three children: Mary, who was married on April 20, 1892, to James Caughell and has one son. James Logan, who was born on December 30, 1892. He was educated in the district schools of Adams township and in the Burnettsville high school, from which he was graduated in 1911. He spent one year at Indiana University and one year at Valparaiso University. He has taught school in this township for the past four years and is at present the instructor in the seventh and eighth grades at Burnettsville. James Logan Caughell is a Republican in politics. James Caughell, the father of James Logan, was killed on June 6, 1892, in the tile works near where Mr. Cochran now lives. Bessie, the second child of Robert Logan Cochran and wife, is the widow of Thomas Caughell and lives in White county. Peter Jacob, the third child, died in infancy. Mrs. Catherine (Roller) Cochran died on January 25, 1892. She was a member of the Brethren church. Robert Logan Cochran has always lived in Adams township since coming here from North Carolina and has never voted outside of the township. He has traveled extensively, having visited Iowa four different times. He owns sixty-nine acres of land where he lives and one hundred acres in White county. The home farm is well improved. At one time Mr. Cochran followed the stonemason's trade and did a great deal of contract work. Altogether he followed this trade for about twenty-seven years. He has seen a wonderful transformation in this fertile agricultural country. When he first came to Carroll county, deer were plentiful and wolves roamed the woods. All of this is past now, and in their place may be found fertile fields, teeming with the grain of the golden harvest. Mr. Cochran is perhaps the only man now living in Carroll county who, in his boyhood days, wore buckskin trousers, the leather of which was tanned from native deerskin. Although a stanch Republican in politics, Mr. Cochran has never cared to hold office and has never been especially active in political affairs. Few men, however, are better known in this section of Carroll county than Robert Logan Cochran, and certainly none is more favorably known than he. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Biographical Section of HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS BY JOHN C ODELL With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families ILLUSTRATED 1916 B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/carroll/bios/cochran193nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/ File size: 4.4 Kb