Biographical Sketch of L. A. Cochrane, Texas County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, from Earliest Times to the
Present" Published by Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889.

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L. A. Cochrane, dealer in hardware, was born in Jefferson County, Ill.
March 1, 1849, being the son of John and Margaret (Roberson) Cochrane,
and grandson of John Cochrane, Sr., who was a native of South Carolina
and whose father was a native of Scotland, and a soldier in the Revolu-
tionary War.  Margaret (Roberson) Cochrane was a native of Georgia, and
the daughter of Joshua Roberson.  L. A. Cochrane was one of a family of
two sons and two daughters.  He was reared in Illinois, and obtained a
good education in the public schools of Jefferson County, Ill., supple-
menting it with academic training at Spring Garden Academy, of Jeffer-
son County.  He then taught school for three years, read medicine, and
entered the Rush Medical College, of Chicago, Ill.  He practiced first
in Clay and Franklin Counties, and at Eureka Springs, but abandoned 
this profession at that place to embark in manufacturing there, and 
afterward at Winona Springs, Ark.  In May, 1875, he came to Cabool, and
has been identified with the manufacturing interests of the county 
since.  In 1887 he opened a branch store at Winona, MO.  He was married
in New Burnside, Ill., to Miss Mary E. Goode, a native of Kentucky, and
to them have been born two sons:  Victor Hugo and Leroy.  Mrs. Cochrane
is a member of the Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Cochrane is an Odd Fellow,
Treasurer of Cabool Lodge No. 433; has served on the school board of
Cabool, and has built and improved property here. 

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