Androscoggin County ME Archives Biographies.....Cobb, Allen H. 1780 - 1856
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Author: Everett S. Stackpole

    REV. ALLEN H. COBB was born in Barnstable, Mass., 21 Nov. 1780. He was
admitted to N. E. Conf. of the M. E. Church in 1802, and settled in Durham in
1818, where he remained till his death, 15 Sept. 1856. He was a member of the
Convention that formed the Constitution of Maine in 1820. He represented Durham
in the Legislature nine years. Was Senator from Cumberland Co. two years and two
years a member of the Executive Council. He once said "If life could be lived
over again, I would continue in the itinerancy, rather than enjoy civil honors."
He preached here and there, as opportunity was afforded throughout his life. In
1848 he was readmitted to the Maine Conf. as a mark of respect for his valuable
services and placed on the superannuated list. "He was faithful in all that was
committed to him, ever ready with his counsel to serve any, and emphatically a
friend of the poor, the widow and the orphan. As a preacher he retained his
popularity to the last. He was clear, methodical and instructive in his
discourses. A great crowd attended his funeral, and the falling tear and subdued
feeling showed how much he was loved." [1]

   He married (1) 14 April 1807, Jane Ferguson of Durham who died 13 Feb. 1815;
(2) 16 April 1816 Nancy, sister to his first wife. She died 21 Feb. 1871, aged
80 yrs. He lived on the "Hallowell Road" between S. W. Bend and Methodist
Corner. The Records of Durham show 276 marriages solemnized by him.

   By his first marriage the children were JOHN, born in Bethel 1 April 1808,
who was for many years a useful and beloved member of the Maine Conf., as is
still his son, Rev. Gershom F. Cobb; MARIA, who m. Elbridge Osgood; HANNAH; and
SUSAN, d. 21 Nov. 1837, aged 23 yrs.

   By second marriage there were GEORGE F.; CHARLES CORYDON, born in Durham 
17 Sept. 1818, m. 5 June 1842 Esther Sydleman, d. at Colorado Springs 18 July 
1889; their children born in Durham were Allen Corydon, b. 13 Jan. 1853, and 
Frank Woodbury, b. 20 Nov. 1851; EDWARD, b. 25 Sept. 1820, lives at 179 
Brookline St., Boston, Mass.; ALLEN, b. 7 Oct. 1824, d. 22 Dec. 1834.



[1]  Minutes of Maine Conference. Memoir written by Rev. Chas. W. Morse.


Additional Comments:

Part of Chapter IX.
A FEW OUT OF MANY

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF DURHAM, MAINE
WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

BY EVERETT S. STACKPOLE.

PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF TOWN.

LEWISTON: PRESS OF LEWISTON JOURNAL COMPANY. 
1899.


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