Civil War Governors of Kentucky · Civil War Governors of Kentucky

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Spencer County, Kentucky, farmer, surveyor, and legislator. Kentucky native. Son of John Cochran and Hannah Van Buskirk Cochran. Married to Julia C. Owen Cochran in 1854. Father of Mary Cochran. Graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute in Frankfort, Kentucky in 1849. Farmer in Spencer County in 1860. County surveyor in Spencer County. Owned four enslaved persons in Spencer County in 1860. Represented Spencer County in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1861 to 1863. Raised a company of the Kentucky State Guard for ninety day service in 1862.

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Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, District 2, p. 493.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, District 2, p. 324A.

Josiah Stoddard Johnston, Memorial History of Louisville from its First Settlement of the Year 1896 Vol 1 (Louisville: American Biographical Publishing Company, 1896), 444.

Citation

Cochran, Robert. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208289 (November 12, 2026).

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Report
Military Board of Kentucky, Report
Correspondence
S. N. Marshall to James F. Robinson
1862-09-20

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