Bio of COCHRANE, James E., Wright Co., MN
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376           HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY 

James E. Cochrane was born in Canada, the son of John and Jessie (Watts) 
Cochrane, and stepson of John Dodd, the pioneer. He came to Minnesota in 
the fifties. He did brave work as lieutenant in Company C, Hatch's 
Independent Battalion, Minnesota Volunteer Cavalry, and at the close of 
the war took a claim of 120 acres of wild land in section 26, Chatham 
township. He erected a log cabin cleared the land, and helped to build a 
road past his place. In 1869 he brought lumber from Monticello and erected
a frame house twenty rods east of his original cabin. This was the first 
frame house erected in this locality. He organized the school district and 
served in many town and school offices. He was a leading man in his community, 
and had much influence on the trend of public affairs. He died about 1879 
at the age of forty. A matter in which he took great pride was the erecting 
of the Marysville bridge over the North fork of the Crow river.