Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Cochran, William 1845 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

WILLIAM COCHRAN.

    William Cochran, who, with his brother Henry, carries on successful farming
operations at Section 2 of Eagle Creek township, is to be counted among the
oldest of the native sons of Lake county, for the births of sixty years ago in
this county were very few in number and the. country was sparsely settled as
compared with its present populousness. Mr. William Cochran followed the flag of
an Indiana regiment during the Civil war, but otherwise his life pursued the
quiet walks of peace in the occupation of farming in Lake county, and he has
never married. He and his brother have conducted their farm together, and are
among the progressive and public-spirited men of their township, esteemed and
honored in all their relations with their fellows. Henry is a man of family, and
is likewise a veteran of the great rebellion.

    Mr. William Cochran was born at Crown Point, Indiana, December 31, 1845, a
son of John and Mary Ann (Fisher) Cochran. His father was born in either New
York or Connecticut, and came to Lake county, Indiana, about 1840, locating
first at Crown Point, but in 1847 moved to Southeast Grove, where he improved a
farm and lived till his death, in his eighty-first year. During his residence at
Crown Point he served as city councilman, and he was a life-long Republican. His
wife was born in London, England, and her first marriage was with George Fry, by
whom she had two children, and William and Henry Cochran were the issue of the
second marriage. She died at the age of sixty-four.

    William Cochran, who is the younger of the two sons, was about three years
old when his father moved to Southeast Grove, and he was reared on the farm in
Eagle Creek township. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company I, Fifth Indiana
Cavalry, being a boy of sixteen at the time and the youngest member of the
regiment. He served three years as a private, and participated in several hard
battles during the campaigns through Tennessee, Georgia and other states. He was
captured at the battle of Resaca, Georgia. and then spent four and a half months
in the prison pen of Andersonville, after which he was confined at Charleston,
South Carolina, for a month, and for two months at Florence, South Carolina,
where he was finally paroled. On account of disability he received his honorable
discharge at Camp Chase, Ohio, in 1865, and then returned home to Lake county
and engaged in farming. He and his brother conduct a well improved farm of two
hundred and sixty acres in Eagle Creek township, and have always enjoyed their
share of prosperity.

Mr. Cochran is a Republican in politics, and on that ticket was elected township
trustee in 1890, taking office November 19, and has held it to the present time.
He is a member of the John Wheeler Post No. 161, G. A. R., at Crown Point.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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