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George Pomeroy Cobb

GEORGE POMEROY COBB (ABT 1841 - 30 APRIL 1913)
COBB

  Hon. George Pomeroy Cobb died April 30 at his home in Bay City, at the age of 72 years, of heart failure. He was the second judge to occupy the bench in Gladwin county from 1887 to 1893, the counties of Arenac, Gladwin and Bay then forming the eighteenth judicial circuit.

  Judge Cobb was a native of New York state and was reared on a farm. In 1855 he came to Michigan with his parents, and taught school, 1860 - 1865, at Macon, Ann Arbor, Salem, Superior and Pittsfield. In 1865 he enlisted in the 5th Michigan volunteer cavalry, and was transferred to the 7th Mich. reg., and discharged at Camp Douglass, Utah, having accompanied the expedition sent across the plains riding an old cavalry horse 1200 miles. In 1868 he graduated from the law department of the U. of M., since which time, he praticed law in Bay City, except during the years he was circuit judge. He was also active in G.A.R. circles, and a member of the Presbyterian church.

{Note: Actual Recorded Date of Death is: 4/30/1913. Name: George Pomeroy Cobb}
 
 
Personal Information
Death Date
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4/30/1913
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Publication Information
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5/8/1913
Gladwin County Record, Gladwin, MI
P:1 C:7
 
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January 2005
Tom Ladner
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