Samuel J. Cochran Biography

	This biography appears on page 497 in "History of Minnehaha
	County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed
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COCHRAN, SAMUEL J., was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, November 20, 1834, 
and lived on a farm until twenty-two years of age. At that time he went to 
Dakota county, Nebraska, where he built a saw mill and manufactured lumber 
for about six years; went to Colorado and engaged in freighting and mining 
about the same length of time, and then engaged in mining in Montana two 
years; returned to Ohio and again took up farming for twelve years; came 
to Sioux Falls on the 4th of July, 1882, and engaged in the grocery business 
with G. B. Sammons, in which he has since continued. He also owns a nice farm 
in this county. Mr. Cochran is a careful, conservative business man, and a 
highly esteemed citizen.