JOSEPH E. COCROFT - Biography

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This biography appears on page 661 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

JOSEPH E. COCROFT, farmer; P. O. Rochester; born in Huddersfield,
Yorkshire, England, May 9, 1821; son of Charles and Mary Cocroft; his
mother died in England. He came to America with his father, in June,
1842; located on Sec. 12, town of Rochester. Married Miss Ann Woodward,
daughter of William and Lydia Woodward, of England, Feb. 17, 1848. They
had twelve children, eleven now living. Mrs. J. E. Cocroft died Dec. 13,
1869. Mr. Cocroft married again, May 30, 1877, Ann Jenkins, born in
England. He has been elected Supervisor several times; member of the
Temple of Honor; religious views liberal; Republican.