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to medical teaching. In the spring of 1S54 Dr. Cobb settled on a small farm at Manchester, Massachusetts.

In consequence of not being engaged in practice, Dr. Cobb acted for many years as dean of the several faculties with which he was connected, and his accuracy as an accountant was proverbial. In 1830 he visited Europe, partly at the instance of the Medical College of Ohio, to make purchases for its museum and library.

In 1S36-37 he delivered two courses of lectures on anatomy at Bowdoin College. He had the greatest aversion to writing, hence has left nothing literary.

He married in 1826 Ann Maria Merrill, and had two sons and a daughter. He died in Manchester, Massachusetts, No- vember 16, 1860 of an ulcerated stomach. A. G. D.

"Necrological Notice of Jedediah Cobb, M. D." By Samuel D. Gross, M. D., North American Medico-Chirurgical Review, Jan- uary, 1861.

Cochran, Jerome (1831-1896).

Jerome Cochran, medico-jurispruden- tist, was born at Moscow, Tennessee, December 4, 1831, and graduated from Nashville University in 1S61. During the war he was surgeon in the confederate army. In 1865 he settled in Mobile, in which city he practised for a number of years, and for the last fifteen years of his life in Montgomery.

Dr. Cochran was an energetic worker in the field of forensic medicine and public hygiene. In 1873 he was appointed chairman of the Committee on Public Health of the State Medical Association, and in that capacity did much and ex- cellent service. He drafted in 1875 the "Act to Establish Boards of Health in the State of Alabama," and in 1S77 the "Act to Regulate the Practice of Medicine in the State of Alabama."

In 1868 he was elected professor of chemistry in the Medical College of Alabama, and in 1873 his professorship was enlarged to that of "chemistry, public hygiene, and medical jurispru-

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dence," which he held until death, after a long illness on August 17, 1896.

Dr. Cochran was a man of many friends. Odd as he was in many of his ways, his eccentricities only the more endeared him to those who knew and loved him, and these were many because of his never-ceasing energy and ever watchful vigilance in his care for the public health. T. H. S.

Journal American Med. Assn., 1896. (por- trait), xxvii.

Stone's "Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons," Indianapolis, 1894 (portrait).

Cochran, John (1 730-1 S07).

John Cochran, born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, director-general of the military hospitals of the Continental Army, received a careful general educa- tion and studied medicine under Dr. Thompson of Lancaster. At the out- break of the French and Indian War he enlisted as surgeon's mate in the British army, where he did creditable service and acquired that skill and experi- ence which came in good stead during the war of the Revolution. Retiring to private life he practised medicine in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and at the out- break of the war of Independence offered his services to the colonies and was employed in the hospital depart- ment. On the personal recommendation of Washington, Cochran, in 1777, was appointed physician and surgeon-general to the army of the middle department. He displayed such marked ability that he was elected director-general in 1781, when Shippen resigned that office. At the close of the war Cochran retired and resumed practice in New York. Soon after Pres. Washington appointed him commissioner of loans for the state of New York, which office he held for several years. He died April 6, 1807, at Palatine, New York. \ \-

Pilchcr, Surgeon-generals of the Army, Carlisle, Pa., 1905.

Cochran, Joseph Plumb ( 1905).

Joseph Plumb Cochran, a son of mis- sionary parents, was born in Persia and