Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Cochran was born on 31 December 1897, in Georgia, United States, his father, Abraham Lincoln Cochran, was 22 and his mother, Nancy Elizabeth Grogan, was 20. He died in 1898, at the age of 1.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Samuel Cochran - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth-name: Samuel Cochran
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1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire): habitational name from the lands of Cochrane in the parish of Paisley, near Glasgow. The placename is of uncertain derivation, perhaps from Welsh coch ‘red’, although this etymology is not supported by the early spelling Coueran.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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