Bios: DAVID H. COCHRAN, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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      DAVID H. COCHRAN,
  
  [p. 790] one of Mahoningtown's leading business men, where he is engaged
  in a livery and undertaking business, is one of Mahoningtown's most
  substantial citizens. He was born August 7, 1861, in Little Beaver
  Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of James and
  Hannah (McKim) Cochran.
  
  Mr. Cochran was reared and educated in Little Beaver Township, where his
  late father was a prominent and wealthy farmer, at one time owning the
  valuable land on which the Lea & Patterson Coal Company opened their
  first coal mines. At the age of twenty-five years David H. Cochran came
  to Mahoningtown and started his livery and later added undertaking to
  his business. His main interests are, however, centered in farming and
  stockraising and he makes a specialty of buying and selling horses and
  of raising fine specimens on his two farms, which adjoin and contain
  about 212 acres. They are situated on the Mahoningtown and Moravia road,
  in North Beaver Township. He is president of the New Castle Trotting
  Association and one of its directors. He was one of the founders and is
  a director and stockholder in the Valley View Cemetery.
  
  Mr. Cochran married Nanie Ritchie, who is a daughter of William Ritchie,
  of Taylor Township, and they have two children?William J. and Mary
  Matilda. Mr. Cochran stands very high in the esteem of his
  fellow-citizens, and takes an active part in all movements of public
  importance in his section.
  
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  20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
  Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
  Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
  
  Updated: 28 Dec 2001