Biography

05/13/1813 - 11/11/1878


COCHRAN, John R., a Representative from Erie County; born, May 13, 1813 in Vermont; elected as a Union Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1863 and as a Republican in 1864; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1865); elected, chair, Erie County Republican Committee; died, November 11, 1878 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania; interred, Erie Cemetery, Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania.


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