Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas. Page: 723 of 1,110
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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.
member of the K. of P., and in politics affiliates
with the Democratic party.
Dr. Rosser has scarcely reached the noon
of life. With his active mental temperament
and his superior medical training, a future of
bright promise awaits him.
R. A. M. COCHRAN, one of the early
settlers of Dallas county, was born in
Murray county, Tennessee, December
25. 1839, the second son of William M. and
1 Nancy Jane (Hughes) Cochran, natives of
North and South Carolina respectively. In
1843 the parents einigrated to Dallas county,
Texas, where the father held the office of
County Clerk, being the first clerk of the
county, and was also the first Representative
to the Legislature. He died in this county,
in 1853, forty-six years of age, and the mother
survived him some years, dying in 1878, aged
fifty-nine years. On the paternal side the
falnily are of Irish descent, and on the maternal
side of Welsh and English descent.
Grandfather John Cochran served in the
Revolutionary war from South Carolina.
The subject of this sketch came to Dallas
at the age of four years, where he received the
advantages of the common schools, and also
attended McKenzie college. After leaving
school he took a medical course at the University
of Louisiana, at New Orleans, after
which he engaged immediately in the practice
of medicine in Dallas county. In 1861 Mr.
Cochran enlisted in the Eighteenth Texas
Cavalry, as Third Lieutenant of Company C,
was afterward promoted to First Lieutenant
and later as Captain. He was appointed as
Adjutant General of the militia of Texas by
General Magruder near the close of the war.
He served in Texas, Louisiana and Tennessee,
44and was in the battles of Arkansas Post,
Cotton Plant, and was taken prisoner at the
former battle, and confined at Camp Chase,
Ohio. After the close of the war Dr.
Cochran returned to this county and engaged
in the practice of his profession, and in 1866
he was elected to the State Legislature from
Dallas county, continuing in that capacity
one year. He was afterward elected Alderman
from the city, and again from the Second
Ward, and in 1879 he was appointed Postmaster
of Dallas, Texas, by President Hayes
and served during his administration. In
1881 he was elected Chairman of the Republican
State Executive-Committee by the State
Republican Convention at Dallas, serving
two years. In 1883 he engaged in the internal
revenue business, and in 1886 was the
Republican nominee for Governor of Texas,
and made a canvas of the State. In the spring
and summer of 1887, he canvassed the State
of Texas in the interests of the anti-Prohibitionists.
In 1887, he was called by the
anti-Prohibitionists of Atlanta, Georgia, to
canvass their city and county, which he did,
and in 1889 returned to the internal revenue
business, in which he is now connected. In
1890 Mr. Cochran was nominated by Governor
Ross and appointed by President Harrison
as Commissioner of the Columbian Expo.
sition from the State of Texas.
He was married in Dallas county, February
22, 1866, to Miss Laura A. Knight, a
native of this county, and a daughter of 0.
W. and Serena (Hughes) Knight, natives of
Tennessee. The parents were married in
their native State, and afterward emigrated to
Dallas county, settling near Cedar Springs,
where the mother still resides, the father
having died a few years ago. Mrs. Cochran
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Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20932/m1/723/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.