THE OKLAHOMAN (Oklahoma City, OK)
8/3/1928 COBB FUNERAL SET ON FRIDAY (Friday)
Pioneer Republican Leader Dies at His Home In Sapulpa
Sapulpa, Aug. 2 Funeral services for J.H.N. Cobb, 70 years old, attorney, who was a minister and republican leader, will be held Friday afternoon, it was announced here Thursday. Cobb died of heart disease last Tuesday night.
He was born at McDowell, Va., in 1858, the descendant of a family which came to America in 1613. He went to Nebraska when 31 years old and was ordained a minister at Lincoln. He had his first charge at Thayer, Neb.
Cobb went to Tulsa in 1903, where he served as pastor of the First Methodist church for a year and a half. In 1904, he became pastor of 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 of the Sapulpa chamber of commerce and as county commissioner during the war, and acting as food administrator at the time for Creek county.
Elected as justice of the peace, he was known widely as the "marrying justice." Many Tulsa couples came to Sapulpa to be married by him.
His body will lie in state in the new Methodist church which he largely helped to build.
(Above details provided by "emily-47063153")
THE OKLAHOMAN (Oklahoma City, OK)
8/3/1928 COBB FUNERAL SET ON FRIDAY (Friday)
Pioneer Republican Leader Dies at His Home In Sapulpa
Sapulpa, Aug. 2 Funeral services for J.H.N. Cobb, 70 years old, attorney, who was a minister and republican leader, will be held Friday afternoon, it was announced here Thursday. Cobb died of heart disease last Tuesday night.
He was born at McDowell, Va., in 1858, the descendant of a family which came to America in 1613. He went to Nebraska when 31 years old and was ordained a minister at Lincoln. He had his first charge at Thayer, Neb.
Cobb went to Tulsa in 1903, where he served as pastor of the First Methodist church for a year and a half. In 1904, he became pastor of 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 of the Sapulpa chamber of commerce and as county commissioner during the war, and acting as food administrator at the time for Creek county.
Elected as justice of the peace, he was known widely as the "marrying justice." Many Tulsa couples came to Sapulpa to be married by him.
His body will lie in state in the new Methodist church which he largely helped to build.
(Above details provided by "emily-47063153")
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