BIO:  COCHRAN, James H., s/o William & Elizabeth (Colvin) Cochran

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

COCHRAN   COLVIN   ANDERSON   DEER   MOUSER   JOHNSON   SMITH   HUNT

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1886

Knox County, Vincennes Twp, page 328

JAMES H. COCHRAN, proprietor of the La Plante Hotel of Vincennes, Ind., was
born in Gibson County, Ind., April 12, 1819; son of William and Elizabeth
(Colvin) Cochran; natives respectively of Tennessee and Kentucky.  James H.
grew to manhood in his native county, and assisted his parents on the farm,
but secured a limited education.  His father died when he was thirteen years
of age, and on him devolved the duty of assisting his mother in providing
for the family.  He learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked for
some time in Princeton, when his health failed him and he contemplated
returning home, but was offered a position as clerk in a hotel in that city
and accepted, continuing at that work in Princeton and Evansville until he 
was married.  He then kept hotel in Mount Carmel, Ill., fifteen months, and
at the end of that period returned to Evansville, and owned and managed the
railroad hotel of that city a year.  His wife, Mary Anderson, died about
this time, and he then returned to his first employer, who had charge of a
hotel in Evansville, and managed the City Hotel until his marriage to his
present wife, Margaret (Mouser) Deer in 1856.  He became general traveling
agent for the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad, continuing in that capacity
seven years, when he conducted the old Parke Hotel in Rockville, Ind., for
six years.  At the end of that time he engaged in the book and stationery
business in Evansville.  In 1873 he again engaged in the hotel business in
Montezuma, Ind., and conducted the Cochran House of that city four or five
years.  He again kept hotel in Rockville, and then returned to Montezuma and
remained in the hotel business there until September, 1885.  Since that time
he has had control of the La Plante House of Vincennes with the best of
success, as his long and varied experience would insure.  Mr. Cochran's last
marriage was blessed with eight children, four now living:  Laura B. (wife
of John E. Johnson), Jennie (wife of George A. Smith), John W. (clerk of the
hotel), and Charley F.  He also has two living children by his first marriage:
Alice A. (wife of Joseph Hunt) and Morris J., attorney at law in Buena Vista,
Col.  Mr. Cochran is a Republican and a member of the I.O.O.F., and he and 
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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