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 Elizabeth Jane Cochran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Elizabeth Jane Cochran ( May 5, 1865 - January 27, 1922), born in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania, was perhaps better known under her pen name Nellie Bly.
The quality of the letter caused the editor to ask Cochran, who was desperately looking for a job, to join the paper as a reporter.
At the age of 57, Elizabeth "Pink" Cochrane died of pneumonia.
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 weldon - aqw18.htm
Ethel COCHRAN was born 1907 and died ?.
Jane was born 17 Mar 1860 in Aigbarth,, Lancaster, England.
Elizabeth Gordon BLAIR was born 15 Jan 1898 in Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
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 Elizabeth Jane Cochran: Definition and links.
Elizabeth Jane Cochran ( May 5, 1865, Cochran's Mills[?] - January 27, 1922), perhaps better known under her pen name Nellie Bly, was an investigative journalist[?].
A sexist column in the Pittsburgh Dispatch[?] prompted her to write a venomous rebuttal to the editor.
The quality of the letter caused the editor to ask Cochran, who was desparately looking for a job, to join the paper as a reporter.
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 chapman - aqw25.htm
Elizabeth was born 1822 in Taylor Village, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
George Hartley COCHRAN was born 1854 and died 1934.
Amelia COCHRAN was born 1856 and died 1937.
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 Mezzanotte - Wiesee - Bauder - Forsell - pafg71 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Malcolm COCHRAN was born on 21 Aug 1885 in Toronto, Ontario.
Anne Boswell COCHRAN was born on 13 Dec 1920 in Fort William, Ontario.
Sarah Elizabeth THOMPSON was born on 25 Aug 1859 in Madawaska, Ontario.
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 Our Family Tree
Harley COCHRAN was born 4 JUL 1920 in Vaughn, Benton, Ark, and died 4 JUL 1920.
Elizabeth B was born 1853 in AL, and died 21 JAN 1927 in Ramer Alabama.
Freelon COCHRAN was born 3 NOV 1932 in Chetopa, Lebett, Kan, and died 1953 in Korea.
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 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Elizabeth’s father, an important influence in her life, died in 1870 when he was struck with paralysis; Elizabeth was six years old.
According to Kroeger, “She [Elizabeth] was between the ages of sixteen and twenty, unmarried, financially strapped, and frustrated by her inability to find suitable employment...Her sense of the injustice awaiting any woman who needed a good job and tried to get one in fast-industrializing Pittsburgh no doubt grew with every disappointment” (33).
Elizabeth’s article was titled “Mad Marriages,” and suggested that marriage should be a womans free choice, and that family members, along with society should not pressure women into it.
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 EIGHTEENTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He was married to Elizabeth Jane McConnell (daughter of Hugh McConnell and Elizabeth Jolly) on 7 Feb 1822 in Hickory Hill, Highland, OH.
Elizabeth Jane McConnell was born in 1800 in, Adams, O. She was born on 22 Aug 1801 in, Ross, OH.
Eliza E. Cochran was born in 1839 in Jackson Twp., Highland Co., OH.
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 Nellie Bly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elizabeth Jane Cochran ( May 5, 1864 - January 27, 1922), born in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania, and called "Pink".
The editor also gave Pink her pen name, Nellie Bly, after the title character in a popular song by Stephen Foster.
There is a small amusement park in Brooklyn, New York City named after her, taking as its theme Around the World in Eighty Days.
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 John Walter Vaughn's - Person Page 87   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Mary Ann Cochran was born on 17 April 1858 at Livingston County, Kentucky.
Sarah Elizabeth Cochran was the daughter of John Thomas Cochran and Sarah Jane Ross.
Sarah Elizabeth Cochran was born on 31 December 1859 at Livingston County, Kentucky.
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 The American Experience | Around the World in 72 Days | People & Events | Nellie Bly
The similarity between her surname and her birthplace was no coincidence: the town was named after its most prominent citizen, her father Michael Cochran, a wealthy landowner, judge, and businessman.
After she died, he married again and had five more children, the third of which was Elizabeth, considered the most rebellious child in the family.
Elizabeth's mother, feeling the need for some financial security, hastily entered into a disastrous marriage to a man who abused her.
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 Descendants of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven - Person Page 495
Agnes Cochran was born circa 1864 at Iowa.
Enid Clare Cochran was the daughter of Hamilton Cochran and Enid Clare Doreen Slee.
Mary Jane Cochran was born between 1829 and 1830; She may have been born between 1825 and 1830, but George and Mary married in 1828 so it is more likely that her birthdate is about 1829.
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 chapman - aqw70.htm
Elizabeth LEWIS ( Elizabeth KILLAM, Mary TAYLOR, Mary CHAPMAN, William) was born 1821.
Elizabeth married Abram MILLS on 21 Nov 1837 in Salisbury,, New Brunswick, Canada.
Sarah Ann LEWIS ( Elizabeth KILLAM, Mary TAYLOR, Mary CHAPMAN, William) was born 24 Dec 1830 in,, New Brunswick, Canada.
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 Cochran Family Members
Judge Michael Cochran, father of ‘ Nellie Bly ’ Elizabeth Jane Cochrane (she added the ‘e’), was born May 22, 1810 to parents Robert Cochran and Catherine Risher Cochran.
Michael Cochran's second marriage, in 1858, was to Mary Jane Kennedy, daughter of Thomas Kennedy, first Sheriff of Somerset County, Pa., by whom there were five children.
Elizabeth Jane Cochrane ( Nellie Bly) was the third child, born May 5, 1864 ( not 1867, as is often incorrectly cited) in Cochran's Mills, PA; married Robert Seaman, 5 Apr 1895, at the Church of the Epiphany, Ashland Ave., Chicago, Illinois; d.
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 Elizabeth Jane Cochran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Elizabeth Jane Cochran ( May 5, 1865 - January 27, 1922), born in Cochran 's Mills, Pennsylvania, was perhaps better known under her pen name Nellie Bly.
Apparently she changed her last name to Cochran e (with an added 'e') later.
At the age of 57 Elizabeth "Pink" Cochran e died of pneumonia.
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 The Porter Research Site Database
Children were: Amy Lynn Cochran, Deborah Ann Cochran, Daniel Robert Cochran.
Children were: Everett Edward Cochran, Christopher Lake Cochran, Jill Lynn Cochran.
Children were: Joan Cochran, Donna Jeanette Cochran, Daniel Browalee Cochran, Loyal Burdette Cochran, Everett E. Cochran, Barbara Sue Cochran.
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 Temp Cochran
Another branch of the family derives from William de Cochrane, of Renfreshire, who was the father of a son named William, who married Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Montgomery, of Ayrshire, and left issue by her of an only child, named Elizabeth.
William Cochran, who came from Ireland to Londonderry, NH., before1730, married Elizabeth MacKertney and probably left issue by her, although his records are not complete.
Yet another John Cochran or Cochrane settled in Augusta County, VA. in 1745 and appears to have been previously in PA. He married Susannah Donnelly, by whom he was the father of James, Robert, and several daughters whose names were not given.
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 NINETEENTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Elizabeth Jane Cochran was born on 24 Apr 1823 in Jackson, Highland, OH.
She was buried in Cochran Cemetery, Warren, IA.
Jasper Joseph Clevenger was born in 1846 in Ohio.
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 Encyclopedia: Elizabeth Jane Cochran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Elizabeth Jane Cochran ( May 5, 1864 - January 27, 1922), born in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania, was better known under her pen name Nellie Bly.
At the age of 57, Elizabeth "Pink" Cochrane died of pneumonia (her nickname was "pink" because she was christened in a bright pink dress!)
An account of Cochrane's trip around the world  ( http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/nellie.html)
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 NYCHS: Nellie Bly -- Before Blackwell's Island Asylum
On May 5, 1864, in the western Pennsylvania hamlet of Cochran's Mills, Mary Jane Cochran gave birth to the daughter the world would one day know as Nellie Bly.
Mary Jane was the second wife of judge Michael Cochran, and Bly was his thirteenth child.
While the other mothers of Cochran's Mills dressed their daughters in traditional gray calico and, drab brown merino cloth, Mary Jane chose a starched, stand-out pink for her little girl, set off by frilly white challis and long white stockings instead of the standard utilitarian fl.
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 Cochran Family Tree
LeVerse Cochran — He was in the army before the start of the war, was captured and died in the Bataan Death March.
At birth they were named Frederick Charles, and Arthur Francis Cochran or (Miller).
Note: A reliable source informed me that Frederick Charles was raised in a Catholic Orphanage in St. Joseph, MO, and relocated to Washington state, as a adult he became a noted artist, and did illustrations for magazines with the pen name of Charles Cochrane.
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 Hopewell Presbyterian Church 1839 Membership   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This list was transcribed, by Jane McCombs Gillespie, from a photocopy of the original church records.
The original records are held by the Historical Foundation of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches, Assembly Drive, P. Box 847, Montreat, NC 28757.
Jane McCombs Gillespie --she may have additional information for you.
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 Barlow Descendants and Allied Families - pafg34 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Elizabeth Jane Barlow 5 Mar 1811 in Barren Co, Kentucky.
Elizabeth Jane Barlow [ Parents ] was born
After marriage to Jane Hart Howard he settled on a farm on the NorthFork of Indian Creek in Monroe, County.
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 Elizabeth Carrington, b: -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Cochran, Ann ( 1713 - 1769) Cochran, Charles Bartow ( 21 JUN 1861 - JUN 1928) Cochran, George Metz ( 13 JUL 1880 -) Cochran, George ( 1601 -) Cochran, Hugh ( 1553 - 1645) Cochran, Hugh Kittough ( 1591 -) Cochran, James Cochran, James ( 1731 -) Cochran, James ( 1674 - 1720)
Cochran, Peter ( 1738 -) Cochran, Peter ( 1704 - 1759) Cochran, Rachel Cochran, Rebecca Cochran, Robert ( 1736 -) Cochran, Robert ( ABT 1473 -)
Cochran, Robert C ( 1776 - 1810) Cochran, Robert ( 1 JUL 1596 -) Cochran, Robert ( 1705 -) Cochran, Stephen ( 1 JUL 1630 -) Cochran, Thomas ( 1703 - 1791)
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 SORRELLS Genealogy
left a widow Elizabeth Cochran who received negros…….Statement (Oct 1810) by Thomas Cochran, saying the widow Elizabeth Cochran had married secondly William Wilson who had since died, and Elizabeth had predeceased the said Wilson.
File also contains the deposition (July 26, 1792) by Ann Sorrell, stating she heard Elizabeth Sowell say she wanted to carry Negro boy Hardy with her after she married Edward Turner, but Edward said the Negro was property of Thomas Cochran.
Division of the land of James Sorrell dec’d was returned to this court by the persons appointed to divide it.
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 Edward Breland - Ancestors & Family Index
COCHRAN, JOHN A (15 Dec 1829 - 09 Sep 1896)
COCHRAN, MARY JANE (04 Jul 1833 - 20 Jun 1913)
COCHRAN, MR A B? (14 Jun 1909 - 30 Jan 2000)
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 Nellie Bly: Surfing the Net with Kids
Born May 5, 1864 as Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was a pioneering female newspaper reporter.
She became a celebrity in 1889 at the age of twenty-five when she traveled around the world in just seventy-two days, breaking the fictional record created in Jules Vernes' 1873 novel "Around the World in 80 Days." For free digital copies of Bly's "Around the World in 72 Days" and the Verne novel, click here.
In 1998, Rosemary Gazzillo was a student in Professor Catherine Lavender's Women's Studies class at City University of New York, where she wrote this one-page Nellie Bly biography.
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 Isaac Bufkin and Margaret Jane Cochran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
She is the sister of Martha Cochran[e], wife of Hiram Suggs, parents of Rachel, who married Jerry Myer Bufkin
Children of Isaac Bufkin and Margaret Cochran are:
Lanie Elizabeth Bufkin, born 1873 and died 1944
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 Descendants of John Ray - pafg37.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Helen Irene Schmidt ( Carolyn Cochran, Joseph George Cochran, Elizabeth "Eliza" Jane Ray, Matthew, John)
Jay Alvin Dorsey ( Elizabeth Pearl Ray, William James, William James, Matthew, John) was born on 27 Apr 1910 in Greenfield, Adair Co., Iowa.
Everett was born on 19 Jul 1911 in Adair Co., Iowa.
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