Iola May Cochran

Female1870–

Brief Life History of Iola May

When Iola May Cochran was born in 1870, in Canonsburg, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Hugh Cochran, was 40 and her mother, Mary Jane Ayres, was 36.

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Family Time Line

Hugh Cochran
1830–1889
Mary Jane Ayres
1834–1908
George B. Cochran
1865–
Mary A. Cochran
1868–1946
Iola May Cochran
1870–
Eliza Jane Cochran
1874–1949
William Hugh Cochran
1877–1937

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  • Iola May Cochran in household of Hugh Cochran, "United States Census, 1880"

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Siblings (5)

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Age 0

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1877 · First National Strike in U.S. Begins In Pittsburgh Against Pennsylvania Railroad

Age 7

Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.

1901 · Assassination of Mckinley

Age 31

President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.

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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