Father: Augustus Owen Cochran (1805-1877)
Mother: Francis B. Bailey (1808-1893)
08/27/1850 - Farmer, Marshall Co, MS (lived with his parents and sibs; indexed in the 1850 U.S. Census as "Jerome H. Cochran") [Note: It is possible that he had the middle name "Hunter", but this is undocumented.]
05/10/1855 - Married, Sarah "Sallie" Jane Johnson Collins, DeSoto Co, MS
1855 - Studied medicine, Memphis, TN, under medical preceptors,Dr. R. H. Harrison
and Dr. W.K. Bowling.
1856 - Received first M.D. degree, Botanic Medical College, Memphis, TN
1857 - Practiced medicine, Fayette Co, MS
1860 - Sarah, his wife, was living in DeSoto Co, MS with two children. [Note: It is possible that Jerome was a medical student in Nashville, TN.]
1861 - Received 2nd M.D. degree, Medical Department of the University of Nashville, Nashville, TN
06/05/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, Okolona, MS
06/06/1862 - Ordered to report to Medical Director J. D. Caldwell, Okolona, MS, by Medical Director F. A. Ross, Army of AL & West FL
09/26/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States,
to rank from 06/06/1862
09/26/1862 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
10/06/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Hospital, Marion, MS
11/06/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Marion Station, Lauderdale Co, MS
12/01/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Hospital, Marion, MS
01/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, General Hospital, Marion, MS
02/17/1863 - "Surgeon Jerome Cochran will report to Medical Director [Nathaniel Savage] Crowell, at Jackson, Miss., for assignment to duty."
02/28/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, General Hospital, Marion, MS
04/01/1863 - Surgeon, General Hospital, Marion, MS
05/01/1863 - Surgeon, General Hospital, Marion, MS
07/09/1863 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 06/06/1862
08/01/1863 - Surgeon, General Hospital, Marion, MS
09/01/1863 - Surgeon, Gen. Breckinridge's Division Hospital, Marion, MS
10/01/1863 - Surgeon, Marion Station, MS
01/00/1864 - Surgeon, Hospital, Marion Station, MS
01/01/1864 - Surgeon, Hospital, Tuscaloosa, AL
01/30/1864 - Confirmed as Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
03/01/1864 - Surgeon, Hospital, Tuscaloosa, AL
03/23/1864 - Assigned to duty, 2nd Congressional District [?AL]
05/09/1864 - President, Medical Examining Board for the 2nd District, Conscript Dept., Montgomery, AL
08/18/1864 - Surgeon, Tuscaloosa, AL
1865 - Practiced medicine, Mobile, Mobile Co, AL
1868-1873 - Professor of chemistry, Medical College of Alabama, Mobile, AL
06/21/1870 - Practiced medicine, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL (lived with wife, Sarah, and 4 children; indexed in the 1870 U. S. Census as "James Cochran")
1873 - Chairman, Committee on Public Health, Alabama State Medical Association
1875 - Drafted the Act entitled "Act to establish boards of health in the State of Alabama." (passed by the legislature)
1874 - Practiced medicine, Mobile, Mobile Co, AL
04/19/1877 - Father, Augustus, died in Oklahoma
1883 - Practiced medicine, Mobile, Mobile Co, AL
1886 - Practiced medicine, Montgomery, Montgomery Co, AL
1888 - Published the paper "Problems in regard to yellow-fever and the prevention of
yellow-fever epidemics", Public Health Pap Rep, vol. 14, pp. 41-50
1890,1893 - Practiced medicine, Montgomery, Montgomery Co, AL
1893 - Senior Censor and Chairman, State Board of Medical Examiners, AL
1893 - Committee of Public Health, Alabama State House
01/26/1893 - Mother, Francis, died in Oklahoma
- Later in life converted from being a Methodist to Catholicism

Dr. Cochran's obituary in the Journal of the American Medical Association gives a date of death of Aug. 17, 1896. It recaps many of his achievements and adds "He had his 'quips and oddities', what genius has not? But take him all in all, we shall not see his like. His friends, his state, his country and our association have suffered a great loss" 1896 JAMA, vol. 27, p. 448-49.

Pam Dempsey provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
07/21/2012. Unpublished database.