- HIRAM M. COBB, one of the respected citizens of Clinton,
Rock Co., Wis., was born in
- Waterbury, Vt., June 4, 1828. His parents were Ebenezer COBB,
a soldier of the War of 1812, who participated in the engagement
at Plattsburg, N.Y., and Rhoda (FARNSWORTH) COBB. They were married
at Pollock, Vt., and were the parents of ten children, nine of
whom lived to be adults. Clarissa married Abraham MOCKBRIDGE,
and together they came West in 1855, but both are now dead; Reuben
died at the age of twenty-two years; Henry married Fannie PEARL,
and died in Grand Isle, Vt.; Mary married George PEARL, and settled
in St. Lawrence County, N.Y., where she died in 1858; George
married Lena PEARL, settled in Milton, Vt., and was killed by
a runaway Dec. 25, 1885; William died in infancy; Charles, who
settled in Rock County in 1854, is now a resident of Cambridge,
Ill., and is master mechanic of the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific Railroad; he married Miss Jane CAMPBELL. The mother of
these children died in St. Lawrence County, N.Y., in 1846, while
the father died in 1866 in Clinton, Wis.
- The subject of our sketch was reared on a farm, where he
remained until eighteen years of age,
- at which time he was apprenticed to the trade of wagonmaker.
He served three years, the first year receiving $35; the second,
$45; and the third; $55. After finishing his trade he went to
St. Albans, Vt., where he worked at his trade one year. For two
years he ran on steamer "U.S." on Lake Champlain. In
1849 he married Miss Elizabeth CAMPBELL, a kind and true woman,
who was loved and respected by all with whom she came in contact.
She was a native of Scotland, coming to this country when an
infant. In 1855 Mr. and Mrs. COBB left for the far West, coming
to Clinton Township, where he embarked in farming, following
the same up to 1861, when he removed to Clinton, and there embarked
in the manufacture of wagons. In 1864 he was in the employ of
the Government, and was severely injured, from the effects of
which he has never recovered. Since 1865 he has been engaged
in the manufacture of baggage barrows. Mr. and Mrs. COBB were
the parents of one child, W. H., now railroad engineer on the
Chicago & Northwestern Railway, with headquarters at Harvard,
Ill., who married Miss Maggie O'BRIEN. Mrs. COBB died in 1886.
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- Taken from "The Portrait and Biographical Album of
Rock County, Wis." (c)1889, p. 995.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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