Freeman Cobb 1830-1878
Freeman Cobb was a businessman and coach line proprietor whose career began in California and Central America. In 1853 he along with three other Americans established a coach line known as Cobb & Co in Melbourne, Australia to service the Victorian goldfields using the latest Concord thorough-brace coaches Cobb had brought with him from America. Cobb sold the business in 1856 and returned to the US where he married his cousin Annette Cobb. In 1871 he took his family to South Africa and settled at Port Elizabeth. Along with another American who had also operated coaches in Australia and New Zealand he set up Cobb & Co. Ltd. and operated coaches between Port Elizabeth and the Kimberley diamond fields. Cobb died in 1878 in South Africa. The following year his widow returned to Brewster, Massachusetts where she died in 1921. In Australia Cobb's name was sought after by many companies and the coaching business he began spread from Victoria through New South Wales and Queensland. Today the Cobb & Co Coaches business name is still in use on long distance busses and the name stands as an icon in the history of transportation in Australia.
bio contributed by-Diane Wright (#47658048)
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Cobb-Allen
Freeman
Annette
Augusta
Emily
Henry
Roland
Mildred
Walter
Henry
Barbara
Douglas
***
Freeman Cobb was a businessman and coach line proprietor whose career began in California and Central America. In 1853 he along with three other Americans established a coach line known as Cobb & Co in Melbourne, Australia to service the Victorian goldfields using the latest Concord thorough-brace coaches Cobb had brought with him from America. Cobb sold the business in 1856 and returned to the US where he married his cousin Annette Cobb. In 1871 he took his family to South Africa and settled at Port Elizabeth. Along with another American who had also operated coaches in Australia and New Zealand he set up Cobb & Co. Ltd. and operated coaches between Port Elizabeth and the Kimberley diamond fields. Cobb died in 1878 in South Africa. The following year his widow returned to Brewster, Massachusetts where she died in 1921. In Australia Cobb's name was sought after by many companies and the coaching business he began spread from Victoria through New South Wales and Queensland. Today the Cobb & Co Coaches business name is still in use on long distance busses and the name stands as an icon in the history of transportation in Australia.
bio contributed by-Diane Wright (#47658048)
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Cobb-Allen
Freeman
Annette
Augusta
Emily
Henry
Roland
Mildred
Walter
Henry
Barbara
Douglas
***
Freeman Cobb 1830-1878
Freeman Cobb was a businessman and coach line proprietor whose career began in California and Central America. In 1853 he along with three other Americans established a coach line known as Cobb & Co in Melbourne, Australia to service the Victorian goldfields using the latest Concord thorough-brace coaches Cobb had brought with him from America. Cobb sold the business in 1856 and returned to the US where he married his cousin Annette Cobb. In 1871 he took his family to South Africa and settled at Port Elizabeth. Along with another American who had also operated coaches in Australia and New Zealand he set up Cobb & Co. Ltd. and operated coaches between Port Elizabeth and the Kimberley diamond fields. Cobb died in 1878 in South Africa. The following year his widow returned to Brewster, Massachusetts where she died in 1921. In Australia Cobb's name was sought after by many companies and the coaching business he began spread from Victoria through New South Wales and Queensland. Today the Cobb & Co Coaches business name is still in use on long distance busses and the name stands as an icon in the history of transportation in Australia.
bio contributed by-Diane Wright (#47658048)
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Cobb-Allen
Freeman
Annette
Augusta
Emily
Henry
Roland
Mildred
Walter
Henry
Barbara
Douglas
***
Freeman Cobb was a businessman and coach line proprietor whose career began in California and Central America. In 1853 he along with three other Americans established a coach line known as Cobb & Co in Melbourne, Australia to service the Victorian goldfields using the latest Concord thorough-brace coaches Cobb had brought with him from America. Cobb sold the business in 1856 and returned to the US where he married his cousin Annette Cobb. In 1871 he took his family to South Africa and settled at Port Elizabeth. Along with another American who had also operated coaches in Australia and New Zealand he set up Cobb & Co. Ltd. and operated coaches between Port Elizabeth and the Kimberley diamond fields. Cobb died in 1878 in South Africa. The following year his widow returned to Brewster, Massachusetts where she died in 1921. In Australia Cobb's name was sought after by many companies and the coaching business he began spread from Victoria through New South Wales and Queensland. Today the Cobb & Co Coaches business name is still in use on long distance busses and the name stands as an icon in the history of transportation in Australia.
bio contributed by-Diane Wright (#47658048)
***
Cobb-Allen
Freeman
Annette
Augusta
Emily
Henry
Roland
Mildred
Walter
Henry
Barbara
Douglas
***
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