BIO:  Eli H. Cocklin, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Monaghan Township, Pg 146

ELI H. COCKLIN is the son of Jacob and Catherine (Hoover) Cocklin, and was born 
in this township, March 8, 1835.  He was reared as a farmer and nurseryman until 
the age of eighteen, when he went to Waterloo, Black Hawk Co., Iowa, and for two 
years engaged in the propagation of evergreen and deciduous trees; he then 
returned to his native township, and has since followed farming and fruit 
growing.  He has originated several varieties of fruit, including the Ida 
strawberry and Ida cherry, a description of which is given in Downing’s “Fruit 
and Fruit Trees of America,” third appendix.  In 1861 he was elected school 
director, served six years, and in 1833 was re-elected for three years.  He 
married Miss Sarah E., daughter of Chambers and Docey Caley, of Blackhawk County, 
Iowa.  Mr. and Mrs. Caley are of English descent, and came from England, with 
four small children, in the ship “Victory,” in 1840, having been fifty-eight days 
on the ocean.  To Mr. and Mrs. Cocklin have been born six children as follows:  
Ida May, April 9, 1861; Charles Chambers, June 29, 1862; Russell Trall, October 
1, 1864; B. Franklin, July 9, 1867; Alice Dunn, January 31, 1871, and John Ault, 
April 26, 1873.  Mr. and Mrs. Cocklin are members of the St. Paul’s Reformed 
Church, of Mechanicsburg, Penn.