- COBB, Stephen Alonzo; was born in Madison, Maine, June 17,
1833; received a common
- school education; removed to Minnesota in 1850; worked in
the lumbering business for four years, while preparing for college;
entered Beloit college in 1854; graduated at Brown University
in 1858; settled in Wyandotte, Kansas, in 1859, and commenced
the practice of the law; entered the army in 1862, served through
the war, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel; was Mayor
of Wyandotte in 1862 and 1868; a member of the State Senate in
1862, 1869, and 1870; Speaker of the House in 1872; was elected
to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committees on Post
Roads and the State Department.
- [Taken from "Biographical Annals of the Civil Government
of the United States" by Charles Lanman; (c)1876 James Anglim,
Publisher, Washinton; p. 88]
- [Taken from "Biographical Annals of the Civil Government
of the United States" by Charles Lanman; (c)1887 J. M. Morrison,
Publisher, New York; p. 102]
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