Biography

01/16/1763 - 05/03/1829

COCHRAN, Samuel, a Representative from Chester County; born, January 16, 1763 in Chester County, Pa.; drummer boy, Pennsylvania Militia (1778-1779, Revolutionary War); appointed, deputy surveyor, Chester and Delaware Counties (1792-1809); elected, commissioner, Chester County (1793); elected, treasurer, Chester County (1796); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1798, 1799, 1810); unsuccessful campaign, auditor, Chester County (1813, 1814); elected as a Federalist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1816-1817 and 1817-1818 term; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1818-1821); appointed, State surveyor general (1821-1824); died, May 3, 1829 in Cochranville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred, Upper Octorara Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Sadsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.