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ELLIOTT A. COBB, physician and surgeon, Harlan, has been directly interested in the welfare of Shelby County since 1880, at which time he came to the place. He is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Wayne County, July 16, 1843, and a son of Justus and Eliza J. (Morgan) Cobb; the father was a native of Pennsylvania and of English ancestry, and the mother was a native of New York and of Welsh descent. Dr. Cobb was only six years old when his parents moved to Sandusky County, Ohio, where his youth was spent in working on the farm and in attending school. At the breaking out of the late war he enlisted in the Fifty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company A, going south with his regiment. He participated in many hard-fought battles; among the more prominent were McDowell, Cross Keys, Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Charge of Resaca under General Benjamin Harrison, Burnt Hickory, or Pumpkin-vine Creek, Marietta, Peachtree Creek, and at the evacuation of Atlanta. He served his country faithfully until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged in the spring of 1865.
After the war he returned to his Ohio home and began the study of medicine under the teaching of Dr. John. B. Rice, of Fremont, Ohio, as preceptor. He attended lectures at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from Charity Hospital Medical College, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1868. Dr. Cobb then began practicing at Kingston, Illinois, where he remained one year; then he removed to Richmond, Washington County, Iowa, and remained there until 1878, when he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. He graduated from this institution in 1879, and then came to Harlan, where he has built up a large and successful practice. He is a member of the Shelby County Medical Society, the Iowa State Medical Society, and the American Medical Society. Dr. Cobb was first married in 1872, to Miss Martha Foster, a native of Ohio. By this union one child was born - Clyda B. The mother died January 7, 1874. Dr. Cobb was again married, in 1883, to Miss Nettle E. Cunningham, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. By this union three children were born, only one of whom still survives; this child is named Elliott C., the other two died in infancy. The Doctor is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Bichmond Lodge, No. 96. Politically he is a Democrat. Source: 1889 Biographical History of Shelby County, Iowa, pp. 306-307. Transcribed by Marthann Kohl-Fuhs. |
