"HISTORY OF OWEN COUNTY 1884"
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

JACKSON TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
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WILLIAM P. COCHRAN, farmer and stock raiser, was born in this township,
November 25, 1844, and is the seventh of eight children born to Campbell
and Jane (Whitey) Cochran, the former a native of East Tennessee and the
latter of North Carolina and of English and German extraction. He was
reared on a farm, and received a common school education, but not 
satisfied with this he attended a graded school at Centre Point, Clay
county and also one at Spencer.
Receiving a certificate as teacher, he followed that vocation for twelve
terms with success, but never lost the interest he took in tilling the
soil. When of age, he began his life's business for himself, his father
having given him a garm of forty acres, to which he has added eighty 
and he is a wide awake business man and a skillful agriculturist, he
has with his present start a promising future. He is an energetic 
Democrat, having voted with that party ever since he reached his majority.

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