John B. D. Cogswell

Birth Date

1829-06-06

Death Date

1889-06-11

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Wisconsin attorney. Yarmouth, Massachusetts, native. Graduate of Dartmouth College in 1850. Graduate of Harvard Law School in 1852. Admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1853. Moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1857. United States District Attorney for Wisconsin from 1861 to 1866.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, p. 110; John Bear Doane Cogswell Papers, American Antiquarian Society, Manuscript Collections, (http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Findingaids/johnbeardoane_cogswell.pdf) (accessed May 10, 2017).

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