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AMERICAN VETERAN

Oklahoman Archives 
              Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
             
Aug 03, 1928, pg

COBB FUNERAL
              SET ON FRIDAY

Pioneer Republican Leader Dies at His Home ln Sapulpa


SAPULPA.-Funeral service: (or J. H. N. Cobb, 70 year old, attorney, who was a minister and republican leader, will be held be held Friday afternoon.

lt was announced here Thursday. Cobb died of heart. disease last Tuesday night. He was born at McDowell, Va. in  1858, the descendent of a family which came to American in 1613. He went to Nebraska when 31 years old and was ordained n minister at Lincoln. He had his first charge at Thayer. Neb.

Cobb went to Tulsa in l903, where he served as pastor of the First Methodist church for a year and a half. In 1904, he became pastor or the First Methodist church of this city.

He was one of the thirteen republicans elected to the Oklahoma constitutional convention in 1907. another was largely instrumental in having Sapulpa designated seat of Creek county.

His varied activities included directing the work of the anti-saloon league in Oklahoma: serving as Indian agent for Tulsa and Creek counties being admitted to the bar and practicing law;  serving as secretary.

Burial Old Sapulpa Cemetery
 

Also see James H. N. Cobb, bio

 


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Complied and transcribed by Marti Graham, 2011.

 

 



 
  

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