William C. Cochran Family Papers, 1839-1936 | Oberlin College Archives

By Brian A. Williams

Collection Overview

Title: William C. Cochran Family Papers, 1839-1936

ID: RG 30/008

Primary Creator: Cochran, William C. (1848-1936)

Other Creators: Allen, Rosa Dale (1851-1926), Cochran, William (1814-1847), Cox, Helen Finney Cochran (1828-1911), Cox, Jacob Dolson (1828-1900)

Extent: 15.13 Linear Feet

Arrangement:

SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

Subgroup I. Files Relating to William Cochran (father), Jacob Dolson Cox (stepfather), and Extended Cochran Family

Series 1. Letters Received and Sent by William Cochran, 1839-1846 (0.2 linear feet)

Consists of correspondence received and sent by William Cochran, arranged alphabetically and thereunder chronologically, as well as two files containing miscellaneous material. Correspondence includes six letters sent to Charles Grandison Finney in 1846 and two letters from James H. Fairchild dated 1839-1840. A review, dated 1846, written by Finney in which he endorses Oberlin's faculty governance or the "Finney Compact" is also included, as well as a Cochran document reporting on his resignation from teaching at Oberlin (1846), and his diploma from the Oberlin Collegiate Institute dated 1839.

Series 2. Letters Received and Sent by Jacob Dolson Cox, 1859-1898 (0.6 linear feet)

Consists of 155 letters received and sent by Jacob Dolson Cox. Of significance in this series are the ten original letters from William Tecumseh Sherman, dated between 1875 and 1882, in which he details his 1864 march through Georgia and provides his analysis of battles and individuals from the Civil War. Other individuals that wrote to Cox include a letter, dated 1869, from William Seward, several letters (1876-1882) from General Emerson Opdyke, and correspondence, dated 1881 to 1897, from Captain Thomas Speed, among others. Files are organized alphabetically and thereunder chronologically. An index of these letters was prepared by the archives staff, and is found in the front of the box.

Series 3. Letters Received from William Tecumseh Sherman to Jacob Dolson Cox, 1875-1891 (transcriptions) (1 folder)

Comprises of transcriptions prepared by Ellen MacDaniels Speers, in 1994, granddaughter of William C. Cochran, of 23 General William Tecumseh Sherman letters sent to Jacob Dolson Cox that detail events from the Civil War. Included are ten original letters which are located in Series two. The remainder of the A.L.S. originals were divided among the Miller and Speers families. The transcriptions are in chronological order.

Series 4. Letters Received from Jacob Dolson Cox to Helen Finney Cochran Cox, 1861-1865 (transcriptions) (1 folder)

Consists of a notebook containing the transcriptions prepared by Helen Finney Cochran Cox of 213 previously unseen letters sent to her by husband Jacob Dolson Cox during his Civil War service. Only 26 original letters survived, of which six are included in Series two and twenty in the Jacob Dolson Cox papers (30/3). In 1994, Ellen MacDaniels Speers, granddaughter of William C. Cochran, transcribed the letters contained in the notebook, creating a wordproccessing document of them. A printed copy is located within the series.

Series 5. Miscellaneous Correspondence Held by the Cochran Family, 1829-1864 (0.1 linear feet)

Comprises of miscellaneous letters predating young Cochran's 1869 graduation from Oberlin College, which were in the family's possession. Included are letters received by Charles Grandison Finney and his daughter, Helen Finney Cochran Cox. Especially noteworthy is the letter written by Helen Finney Cochran Cox's mother, Lydia Root Andrews Finney, days after Helen's marriage to William Cochran.

Subgroup II. Files relating to the William C. Cochran Family

Series 1. Correspondence relating to William C. Cochran and Family (mostly incoming to William C. Cochran), 1860-1936 (1.6 linear feet)

These documents, as bundled and received, are separated into six subseries (according to family relationship): 1. Letters Received from Jacob Dolson Cox (stepfather), 1860-1875, 14 items; 2. Letters Received from Helen Finney Cochran Cox (mother), 1860-1911 (bulk 1860-1878), 178 items; 3. Letters Received from Rosa Dale Allen Cochran (wife), 1878-1923 (bulk 1881-1888), 47 items; 4. Letters Received From Children (primarily addressed to Rosa Dale Allen Cochran), 1907-1925, 275 items; 5. Letters Received from other Family Members, 1864-1931, 297 items; 6. Letters Received and Sent by the Cochran Children, 1902-1936, 1977, 10 items; 7. Letters Received and Sent by Extended Cochran Family Members, 1866, 1905-1933, 6 items; 8. Letters Received from Persons not related to the Cochran Family, 1862-1931, 101 items; and, 9. Correspondence relating to Allen Deane Cochran, 132 items. In this series, individuals who wrote to Cochran include letters (1864-1900) from his uncle Samuel D. Cochran, correspondence (1870-1923) from half brother Jacob Dolson Cox, Jr., letters (1907-1935) from half sister Hope Cox Pope, a small amount of correspondence (1871-1872, 1880) from James H. Fairchild, and a letter (1870) from William Tecumseh Sherman. One letter written by Allen Deane Cochran to brother William S. Cochran in 1919 is the only document in the collection related to Cochran's oldest son. The files are in alphabetical order and thereunder chronologically.

Series 2. Outgoing Correspondence of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Cochran, 1860-1928 (0.2 linear feet)

Comprises of a small number of letters sent by William and Rosa Dale Allen Cochran and is divided into two subseries: 1. Letters sent by William C. Cochran, 142 items, most which Cochran sent to his mother between 1862 to 1876, including his 1870-1871 trip to Europe, and letters (1878-1925) to his wife Rosa Dale Allen Cochran; 2. Letters sent by Rosa Dale Allen Cochran, dated 1860, 1872, 1895, and 1907, six items. Letters Cochran wrote to his wife Rosa Dale are located in Series 3. The files are organized alphabetically and thereunder chronologically.

Series 3. Letters Received by Rosa Dale Allen Cochran, 1889-1925 (0.2 linear feet)

Consists of 54 letters written to Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from members of the Allen and Cochran families, including 16 letters, dated, 1883 to 1925 from her spouse William C. Cochran (other letters addressed to Rosa Dale Allen Cochran are included in Series 1), and divided into two subseries: 1. Letters Received by Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from the Cochran Family, 1883-1925, 17 items; 2. Letters Received by Rosa Dale Allen Cochran From Extended Family, 1889-1925, 37 items. The correspondence is organized alphabetically and thereunder chronologically.

Series 4. Miscellaneous Historical Materials Relating to William C. Cochran, 1863-1901 (0.6 linear feet)

Important miscellaneous documents included here are calling cards (n.d.), a journal written while in Colorado between 1880-1881, membership cards dated 1874-1891, photographic cards (n.d.), and an index of books read between 1869-1873, as well as his last will and testament, dated 1931. A scrapbook (1 vol.) created by Cochran consists of clippings and programs mainly relating to musical and political events in Cleveland and Cincinnati between 1868-1890. A few Oberlin items are included in the volume.

Series 5. Publications Belonging to William C. Cochran, 1819-1935 (1.2 linear feet)

Comprised of a wide range of cultural, religious, and organizational publications collected by Cochran, they are divided into two subseries: 1. Cultural publications, 1883-1919, consisting of printed works such as the Cushing Manual (n.d.),Protoplasm and Life (1890), and a publication regarding the death of his friend, William Brett, (d. 1918), as well as organizational publications from the Literary Club of Cincinnati (1908), Ohio Chess Association (1887?, 1889-1893), and the Cincinnati Bar Association (1892); 2. Religious publications mainly comprises of publications from the Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church, including important information regarding the Woman's Missionary Society (1894-1921) and lists of members, officers, and organizations (1872, 1892-1893, 1924). Oberlin College publications, 1848, 1900s-1930s, consisting of the Oberlin Alumni Magazine, as well as other Oberlin College related materials. A late accretion yielded a copy of Bibliotheca Sacra (July 1900) and a copy of an address by Frederick Allen.

Series 6. Miscellaneous Materials Relating to the Cochran Family, 1841-1976 (0.8 linear feet)

Organized into four subseries (1. Family records, 1880-1972, n.d.; 2. Family notebooks, 1841-1906; Miscellaneous material file, 1850s-1919; and, Miscellaneous material relating to Allen Deane Cochran, 1909-1976), this series contains files relating to the Cochran family. The first subseries consists of a bound volume containing the genealogy of the Cochran-Allen families begun by William Cochran in 1882, biographical essays, and obituaries. A photocopy on acid-free paper is housed with the original. The second subseries includes three diary-style notebooks, belonging to Samuel D. Cochran (uncle), 1841-47, Helen Finney Cochran Cox (mother), 1849-52, and one of unknown authorship (possibly William C. Cochran), 1870. The notebook of Helen Finney Cochran Cox records events in William C. Cox's formative years. The notebooks were originally filed with the George Nelson Allen Papers (30/67). The third subseries comprises of miscellaneous materials relating to the extended family, including son Allen Deane Cochran, dated 1917 to 1919, and uncle Samuel D. Cochran between 1869 and 1905. Files relating to Allen Deane Cochran, which include financial documents, a passport, and certificates, are contained in subseries four.

Series 7. Non-Textual Materials and Photographs, 1862-1923 (0.6 linear feet)

Comprises of non-textual materials and photographs of the Cochran-Cox-Allen families. Divided into five parts: individual portraits; group portraits; residences, landscapes, and buildings; photo albums; and prints. Several photographs, dated 1898 and 1912, of William C. Cochran, Jacob Dolson Cox, dated 1862 and 1865, and the Cochran children are present, as well as group photographs of the Cochran, Cox, and Allen families, dated between 1884 and 1923. This series contain snapshots of homes of J.D. Cox in Cincinnati (1890) and Charles Grandison Finney in Oberlin (1890), and a photo album, dated 1886, of William C. Cochran. Photos of Finney Chapel, Peters Hall, and Carniege Library (Oberlin, Ohio, n.d.), taken by William. C. Cochran, are also included. Nine signed prints from Kenyon Cox given to William C. Cochran are included, as well as photographs of paintings by Allen Deane Cochran.

Series 8. Scrapbooks, c. 1870s-1979 (0.2 l.f.)

Scrapbook compiled by Ellen Spears. Photographs, newspapers clippings, letters, and miscellaneous items regarding the Cochran-Cox-Allen-Rudd families.

Subgroup III. Research Files and Writings of William C. Cochran

Series 1. Research Files of William C. Cochran, c.1900-36 (5.8 linear. ft.)

Mainly typescript notes taken by Cochran from various newspapers and histories. The excerpts primarily focus on newspaper accounts of Jacob Dolson Cox's military and political service. The notes and extracts were mainly used to compile his writings on Cox and to support his other writings and research interests. Arranged in two subseries: 1. Newspaper Extracts and 2. Miscellaneous Extracts and Notes.

Series 2. Writings, 1900-36 (2.6 linear. ft.)

The writings of William C. Cochran deal mainly with the life and career of his stepfather, Jacob Dolson Cox. Two large unpublished manuscripts ("Political Correspondence of Major General Jacob D. Cox," 1922 and "Political Experiences of Major General Jacob D. Cox, c.1936) comprise the bulk of the series. The series also contains a bound copy of the latter work which includes appendices not found in the manuscript. Arranged in two subseries: 1. Writings About Jacob Dolson Cox and 2. Other Writings by William C. Cochran.

Date Acquired: 10/12/1967. More info below under Accruals.

Forms of Material: diaries, letters (correspondence), manuscripts, photograph albums, photographs, photographs - photographic prints, prints (visual works), programs (documents), publications, scrapbooks

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The papers of the Cochran Family primarily consist of correspondence, family records, photographs, research files, and writings. The corpus of the collection is formed around William C. Cochran (1848-1936), who organized files relating to the Cochran family and who personally collected historical research files used to support his writing. The bulk of the series material is related to William C. Cochran and his immediate family. Included is documentation on the life and time of his natural father William Cochran (1814-1847), stepfather Jacob Dolson Cox (1828-1900), wife Rosa Dale Allen (1851-1926), and his children, as well as other Cochran descendants. The six accessions of family papers, received between 1993 and 1996, have greatly altered the scope and content of this collection. The record adds to our understanding not only of Oberlin College, but of four families intimately connected to this institution: the Finneys, Allens, Cochrans, and Coxes. In particular, there is new information on the military career of Jacob Dolson Cox and the private life of William C. Cochran. While the papers provide an excellent view of Cochran's personal life, his career as the family historian, and a more complete picture of Jacob Dolson Cox, it does not cover his legal career or his service as a trustee at Miami Medical College, Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church, both in Cincinnati, and Oberlin College (which is contained in the records of the Oberlin College Board of Trustees, Record Group 1).

The William C. Cochran family papers--a group significantly reorganized in 1997--is a complex body of documentation. In 1997, the material was organized around three subgroups: SG1, Files relating to William Cochran (father) and Jacob Dolson Cox (stepfather); SG2, Files relating to the William C. and Rosa Dale Cochran family; SG3, Research files and writings of William C. Cochran. The collection was restructured in order to reflect on the several generations of family as well as William C. Cochran's own role as a collector and writer of family history.

In the first subgroup, which mainly consists of correspondence of Cochran's natural father William Cochran and stepfather Jacob Dolson Cox, the previously unseen letters (incoming and outgoing) of Jacob Dolson Cox are of significance. For reasons not fully comprehended, these documents were not part of the 1936 placement of the Cox papers. Focusing on the Civil War in which Cox served, these letters are enormously significant to the understanding of this man and his relationship to Oberlin and Cincinnati, Ohio. Found here are ten letters, plus transcriptions of thirteen more, from William Tecumseh Sherman to Cox. Dated between 1875 and 1891, Sherman comments on several topics related to the Civil War, including his 1864 march through Georgia, and offered analysis of battles and individuals, especially Ulysses S. Grant. At the time, Cox was writing two books on Civil War events that involved Sherman, Atlanta (1882) and March to the Sea; Franklin and Nashville (1882). Of special note are 213 letters, written by J. D. Cox from 1861 to 1865 to his wife, Helen Finney Cochran Cox. These letters were transcribed into a notebook by Mrs. Cox from her husband's original war correspondence, of which only a handful survived. Cox's field correspondence "not only reports on the relationship existing between politics and military outcomes but it also reflects his own perspicacity and high moral tone." An electronic version by Ellen MacDaniels Speers is available. Other notable personalities who wrote to Cox include Rutherford B. Hayes (dated 1892), William Seward (dated 1869), General Emerson Opdyke (dated 1876-1882), and Captain Thomas Speed (dated 1881-1897), only to mention a few. Other documents of this subgroup include three letters received by Charles Grandison Finney, dated 1829 and 1848, and six letters received by Finney's daughter, Helen Finney Cochran Cox, dated between 1846 to 1864.

In Subgroup 2 are files relating to the William C. Cochran family. Mainly consisting of incoming correspondence of William C. Cochran, this body of documentation also contains historical material relating to Cochran and the Cochran family, publications, family records, and photographs. A large number of letters are included from family members, many of which represent new additions to the collection. Correspondence from the immediate family provide a vivid picture into the lives of the Cochran family from 1860 to 1925. Letters (dated 1860-1873) from stepfather Jacob Dolson Cox, from (dated 1860-1911) mother Helen Finney Cochran Cox, and from (dated 1878-1923) spouse Rosa Dale Allen are included. A large amount of correspondence dated between 1904 and 1925, mainly addressed to Rosa Dale Allen Cochran, exist from four of the five Cochran children (dated 1904-1925): Allen Deane, Frances Ermina, Helen Finney, and Mary Rudd. Of the 275 letters from the children, 181 letters are from Helen Finney Cochran, but none survived from William S. Cochran, the oldest son. The bulk of correspondence between eldest daughter Mary Rudd Cochran and her father and mother are located in the Mary Rudd Cochran papers (30/282). These letters from the children document their day-to-day lives as they studied at Oberlin College and in Woodstock, New York, and their careers upon graduating from school. Other incoming letters include lively correspondence from several of his Warren, Ohio, friends, including William Brett (dated 1865-1878), who later would head the Cleveland Public Library. Future president Warren Harding (dated 1911), Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman (dated 1870), and James H. Fairchild (dated 1871-1872, 1880), professor and one time president of Oberlin College, were also correspondents of Cochran. Outgoing letters includes 125 letters written by a young William C. Cochran, some which were originally held back by the family, to his mother Helen Finney Cochran Cox dated between 1862 and 1876. They are a "delightful recounting of what it was like to be a boy of high school age" growing up during the Civil War, later going on to attend Oberlin College, and still later working at the U. S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D. C. and traveling Europe with Oberlin College president James H. Fairchild. Other outgoing correspondence includes 16 letters sent to his wife Rosa Dale Allen Cochran during their 48 years of marriage.

Subgroup 2 also consists of historical material relating to William C. Cochran and his family, as well as a collection of publications belonging to Cochran and family photographs. These files, which include several new additions, reflect on the personal lives of the Cochran family. Cochran's membership cards dated from 1874 to 1891 reveal his active role in the community while publications from the Ohio Chess Association (dated ca. 1887, 1889-1893) and the Literary Club (dated 1908) provides a glimpse into Cochran's personal interests. Other files, such as a record of books read between 1869 and 1873, a journal written during his trip to Colorado in 1880 to 1881, and a list of cases, 1872-1902 Cochran argued before the court, which is the only record recounting his legal career in the Cochran family papers, are present. A scrapbook covering the years, 1868-1890, and a collection of programs and fliers provides documentary evidence of the musical and literary activities that the Cochrans participated in Cleveland and Cincinnati. Three notebooks kept by various family members describe activities and events from 1841-1847 (Samuel D. Cochran, uncle), 1849-1852 (Helen Finney Cochran Cox, mother), and a third notebook, 1870, describing trips to Oberlin and Niagara Falls (possibly authored by Cochran himself).

Documents collected and written by Cochran constitute a large part of the collection, including an extensive body of genealogical information on the Allens, Cox, and Cochran families. Begun by William Cochran in 1882, some of the later dates in the volume were added by his descendants, most notably Mary Rudd Cochran, Carolyn MacDaniels Miller, and Ellen MacDaniels Speers. A Cox family genealogy (photocopy) is also included. Other notable documents contained in this subgroup include nine signed prints (1907, 1909) from Kenyon Cox, as well as photographs of several members of the Cochran, Cox, and Allen families.

The bulk of the Cochran's collected papers are found in Subgroup 3. Consisting of typescript notes and extracts taken from Ohio based newspapers, as well as leading cities across the country (1859-1870), this represents a useful body of selcted documentation on events surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Cochran extracted pieces from Northern dailies such as the Cincinnati Commercial, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Oberlin Evangelist and from Southern newspapers, Daily Constitutionalist (Augusta, Georgia) and Richmond Sentinel. The extracts primarily deal with Jacob Dolson Cox and military and political events from 1858 to 1871. Cochran also extracted notes from published histories and government documents, including Bancroft's History of the United States and Jay Cooke, Financier of the Civil War, that pertained to his other research, most notably Cochran's 1920 publication The Western Reserve and the Fugitive Slave Law....

Cochran's writings about Cox include two brief articles ("Early Life and Military Services of General Jacob Dolson Cox," and "Why General Cox Left Grant's Cabinet"), as well as Cochran's two major works, "The Political Correspondence of Major General Jacob D. Cox," (1922) and "Political Experiences of Major General Jacob D. Cox" (c.1936). Although the latter two works are unpublished, scholars have extensively drawn upon this material. Cochran not only wrote about his stepfather Jacob Dolson Cox, he penned articles for the Oberlin Alumni Magazine, various historical journals, and an unpublished autobiography, which are also included.

After the Cochran family papers were reorganized in April 1997, an additional lot of records (acc # 1997/106) were received from Ellen MacDaniels Speers. Donated to the Archives in August 1997, the files (located in Subgroup 2, Series 1, Subseries 9; Subgroup 2, Series 6, Subseries 4; and, Subgroup 2, Series 7) relate to William C. Cochran’s youngest son, Allen Deane Cochran (1888-1971). Initially, some of the material may have been part of the family papers, but were probably given to Allen Deane by sister Mary Rudd Cochran (see also her personal papers 30/282) after the 1936 death of their father. The Allen Deane Cochran material, which include some files originally in his custody, were left in the basement of his home in Woodstock, New York. Found by Allen Deane Cochran’s stepgrandson, Allen Potter, Ellen Speers received two lots of material from the Potter family in 1996 and 1997.

Collection Historical Note

William C. Cochran (1848-1936, A.B. 1869), lawyer, scholar, and college trustee, was born in Oberlin, Ohio, on March 29, 1848. Cochran represented the convergence of a number of remarkable family lines. He was the son of Professor William Cochran (1814-1847, A.B. 1839), a fervent abolitionist, and Helen Finney Cochran (1828-1911, L.B. 1846), the eldest daughter of Oberlin College President and evangelist Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875). William C. Cochran's father, William Cochran, studied theology after graduating from the Oberlin Collegiate Institute in 1839. Upon completion of his course work in 1842, Cochran was elected professor of logic and adjunct professor of Intellectual Philosophy. After resigning from his appointments over a salary dispute, William Cochran married Helen Finney in May 1846. Cochran's wife was two months pregnant with William when he died in 1847. By 1849, Helen Finney Cochran married Oberlin student Jacob Dolson Cox (1828-1900, A.B. 1851). Cochran's stepfather, Jacob Dolson Cox, went on to serve as a Civil War General, Governor of Ohio, Congressman, and Secretary of the Interior during the Grant Administration.

Cochran, who was raised as a member of the Cox family, grew up with five other children: Helen Finney (1850-1936), Jacob Dolson (1852-1930), Kenyon (1856-1919, hon. 1912), Charles Norton (1858-1907), and Charlotte Hope (1871-1937). Cochran attended public schools in Warren, Ohio, where his stepfather was the superintendent. Upon completing his public education, Cochran worked as a store clerk, first in Warren (1863-64) and later in Quincy, Illinois (1864-65). Using the money he saved, Cochran entered Oberlin College in the fall of 1865. He was awarded the A.B. degree in 1869 and elected class president. When the Oberlin chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was established in 1907, Cochran was one of two men elected to this honorary body from the class of 1869.

Following his graduation from Oberlin College, Cochran joined the family in Washington, D. C, and was appointed as a Trust Fund clerk in the Department of the Interior. At the time, Jacob Dolson Cox, was serving as Secretary of the Interior under President Ulysses S. Grant. In December 1870, after the resignation of his stepfather, Cochran left his clerkship. For the next ten months, he studied and traveled in Europe with Oberlin College President James Harris Fairchild (1817-1902, A.B. 1838, B.D. 1841).

Upon his return to the United States in 1871, Cochran moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and he studied law. Cochran was admitted to the Ohio Bar the following year. During his legal career, Cochran focused on corporate and patent law, refusing to handle criminal or divorce cases. Cochran also served on the Ohio State Board of Examiners for Admissions to the Bar from 1901 to 1903. Cochran retired in 1914, but later that year agreed to serve as Clerk of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. He resigned from the Circuit Court in 1919 to focus his energies on historical writing

In 1878, William C. Cochran married Rosa Dale Allen (1851-1926), a 1873 graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music. She had attended Oberlin's Conservatory of Music, between 1868 and 1872, and, subsequently, taught vocal music there from 1874 to 1876. Rosa Dale was the daughter of former Oberlin College Professor George Nelson Allen, one of the founders of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (1812-1877, A.B. 1838), and Mary Caroline Rudd (1820-1892, A.B. 1841), one of the first three women in the United States to receive a bachelor of arts degree. Five children were born of the Cochran-Allen marraige, four of whom attended Oberlin: Mary Rudd (1881-1982, A.B. 1903), William Samuel (1883-1964, A.B. 1906), Helen Finney (1885-1923, A.B. 1906), Allen Deane (1888-1971) and Frances Ermina (1891-1986, A.B. 1912). All the children married, except for Mary Rudd Cochran, and led successful lives of their own.

Additionally, the Cochrans gave of themselves to serve on boards and community-based groups. In 1901, Cochran was elected to the Oberlin College Board of Trustees. In filling the vacancy caused by the death of his stepfather in 1900, Cochran was doubly honored. From 1906 until his resignation in 1931, he served on the Committee on Nomination of Trustees as a member and chair. Cochran was also a trustee of the Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church and the Miami Medical College, both located in Cincinnati. In 1919, he was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from Oberlin College. Outside the family, Mr. and Mrs. Cochran held many personal interests. Both enjoyed music and belonged to several choirs, which included the Harmonic Society and the May Festival Chorus in Cincinnati. William C. Cochran belonged to other organizations such as Associated Charities, the U.C.D. Club (Utile Con Dulce), the Literary Club, the Ohio Bar Association, and was a founding member of the Ohio Chess Association. Rosa Dale Allen was involved with the Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church, participating in many activities which included the Woman's Missionary Society and president of the Sewing Society.

From the start of the 20th century until his death in 1936, Cochran was engaged in serious historical work. He was devoted to the preservation of state and local history, as well as committed to research and scholarship (he was a life member of the Western Reserve Historical Society and the Mississippi Valley Historical Association). During his retirement from 1914 to his death, he worked to produce a biography of his stepfather, Jacob Dolson Cox. His extensive research resulted in two unpublished manuscripts, "The Political Correspondence of Major General Jacob D. Cox," (1922) and "The Political Experiences of Major General Jacob D. Cox," (1936). These two works added significantly to his earlier published articles on Cox. Included among his writings about Cox were "The Early Life and Military Service of Jacob Dolson Cox" (1901) and "Jacob D. Cox - The Scholar in Action" (1915). His scholarship was not limited to the career of his stepfather, however. Cochran was also the author of Students' Law Lexicon (1888, 2nd 1892, revised 1924), "Labor Legislation" (1900), "Charles Grandison Finney" (1908), "The Dream of A Northwestern Confederacy" (1917), and "The Western Reserve and the Fugitive Slave Law," (1920). Cochran was also a frequent contributor to the Oberlin Alumni Magazine. Included among the articles written for the Alumni Magazine are "What Has Cincinnati Had To Do With Oberlin?" (1907) and "The Oratoria of St. Paul--The Musical Union" (1929). He also authored several pieces on athletics: "Historical Sketches of Athletics at Oberlin: In the Sixties" (1914), "Antiquity of Football" (1925), and "Early Baseball at Oberlin" (1925).

William C. Cochran was the "official" historian of the extended family. He worked to collect material pertaining to the career of his stepfather Jacob Dolson Cox as well as other family lines such as the Allens, Rudds, and Coxes. Cochran compiled a family record. Much of the information used to create the extensive genealogy by Cochran was gleaned from the mass of family letters and memorabilia that he had acquired by him over several generations. Upon his death in 1936, Cochran donated $100,000, his large collection of law books and Civil War material, and the Jacob Dolson Cox papers to Oberlin College. But a large body of family papers, which documented other family lines and members, were left to his oldest daughter Mary Rudd Cochran. Over the next four decades, Mary Rudd Cochran presided over the family records, disposing of small lots on the way to Oberlin College, until her death in 1982. After Mary Rudd Cochran's death and the death of Mr. Laurence and Mrs. Frances Cochran MacDaniels in 1986, granddaughters of Cochran, Ellen MacDaniels Speers and Carolyn MacDaniels Miller (d. 1994), inherited the family papers. Between 1992 and 1996, Speers and Miller donated much of this voluminous historical material to the Oberlin College Archives. (Some historical material may have been dispersed to other family members)

Administrative Information

Repository: Oberlin College Archives

Accruals: Accession Nos: 19; 25; 182; 1978/5; 1978/23; 1992/28; 1992/76; 1993/11; 1993/59; 1993/74, 1993/110, 1993/111, 1994/022, 1994/078, 1995/012, 1995/022, 1996/032, 1997/30, 1997/106, 1997/114, 2001/094, 2002/4, 2012/32, 2014/038.

Access Restrictions: Lantern slide plates restricted from handling.

Acquisition Method: The initial lot of William Cochran papers was received from the Oberlin College Library in 1967. Subsequent lots were received from his daughters Mary Rudd Cochran (1881-1982, A.B. 1903), Frances Ermina Cochran (Mrs. Laurence H. MacDaniels, 1891-1986, A.B. 1912), and granddaughters Carolyn MacDaniels Miller (1926-1994, A.B. 1947), and Ellen MacDaniels Speers (1921-, A.B. 1942). In 1992, during the retrospective conversion of the Jacob Dolson Cox Papers (30/3), material associated with William C. Cochran was appropriately separated from the Cox papers and placed in this existing collection. Three notebooks were likewise separated from the George Nelson Allen Family Papers (30/67). Cochran's files were received with the Jacob Dolson Cox Papers when the latter were deeded in 1936 to the Oberlin College Library. Recent acquisitions from Ellen MacDaniels Speers and Carolyn MacDaniels Miller were separated from the larger papers donation and added to the George Nelson Allen Family Papers (30/67), as well as used to create separate collections for Mary Rudd Cochran (30/282) and Mr. and Mrs. Laurence MacDaniels (30/276). The bound copy of "Political Experiences of Major General Jacob D. Cox" and several publications and legal briefs by William C. Cochran were received from the Oberlin College Library, Special Collections, in 2001-02. Ellen Speers donated a copy of Bibliotheca Sacra (July 1900) and a copy of an address by Frederick Allen in 2012.

Related Materials: Additional material regarding William C. Cochran may be found in the following institutional collections: Oberlin College Board of Trustees and Prudential Committee (1), Papers of Presidents James Harris Fairchild (2/3), Henry Churchill King (2/4), and Ernest Hatch Wilkins (2/7), Presidential Assistant William F. Bohn (3/1), Office of the Secretary (5), Office of the Treasurer (7) and Alumni Records (28). Personal paper groups containing material relating to Cochran include: Jacob Dolson Cox Papers (30/3), George Frederick Wright Papers (30/21), George Nelson Allen Family Papers (30/67), Mary Rudd Cochran (30/282), and Mr. and Mrs. Laurence MacDaniels (30/276).

Finding Aid Revision History: Processed by Brian A. Williams, May 1992, revised October 1993. Revised by Thomas Steman, April and September 1997, assisted by volunteer Sabra Henke; Archives staff, October 1998; Melissa Gottwald, September 2001 and January 2002; Emma Anderson, April 2007; Archives staff, 2012; Anne Cuyler Salsich, August 2014.

Box and Folder Listing

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Subgroup 1: Files Relating to William Cochran, Jacob Dolson Cox, and Extended Family Members

Series 1: Files, William Cochran

Box 1

Folder 1: Correspondence, William Cochran with Jeremiah Butler, 1841
Folder 2: Correspondence, William Cochran with Emeline Cochran, 1845
Folder 3: Correspondence, William Cochran with James H. Fairchild, 1839-1840
Folder 4: Correspondence, William Cochran with Charles Grandison Finney, 1846
Folder 5: Correspondence, William Cochran with Edmund Hall, 1844-1846
Folder 6: Correspondence, William Cochran with Asa Mahan, 1841
Folder 7: Correspondence, William Cochran with John Morgan, 1846
Folder 8: Correspondence, William Cochran with Oberlin Faculty, 1846
Folder 9: Correspondence, William Cochran with Lewis Tappan, Photocopy, undated: Original 1846.
Folder 10: Correspondence, William Cochran with Unknown Correspondent, undated: Includes incomplete letter.
Folder 11: Correspondence, William Cochran with George Whipple and John Morgan, 1846
Folder 12: Copy of a Review by Charles G. Finney, ca. 1846
Folder 13: "E.S." (Entire Sanctification) with "Facts Relating to the Conduct of the Faculty in Regard to William Cochran", ca. 1846
Folder 14: Diploma, Oberlin Collegiate Institute, 1839

Series 2: Correspondence, Jacob Dolson Cox

These letters, which relate to the 1936 placement of the Jacob Dolson Cox papers at Oberlin, were received in 1997 as part of the William C. Cochran papers.

Box 1

Folder 1: Index of Correspondence, Jacob Dolson Cox, 1859-1898, undated
Folder 2: Letters Received by Jacob Dolson Cox, 1865-1898: Alphabetical. 135 items.
Folder 3: Letters Received from William Tecumseh Sherman, 1875-1882, Copies, undated: 10 items.
Folder 4: Correspondence, Jacob Dolson Cox to Charles F. Cox, 1864, Copy, undated
Folder 5: Correspondence, Jacob Dolson Cox to Helen Finney Cochran Cox, 1861-1864, undated
Folder 6: Correspondence, Jacob Dolson Cox to Major G.W. Davis, 1898
Folder 7: Correspondence, Jacob Dolson Cox to Brigadier General R.C. Drum, 1881-1882
Folder 8: Correspondence, Jacob Dolson Cox to James Monroe, 1880-1895
Folder 9: Correspondence, Jacob Dolson Cox to Reverand Thomas Robinson, 1859-1879
Folder 10: Correspondence, Jacob Dolson Cox to Colonel R.N. Scott, 1881

Box 2

Folder 1: Correspondence, Jacob Dolson Cox from William Tecumseh Sherman, 1875-1882: Manuscript.

Series 3: Correspondence Transcriptions, William Tecumseh Sherman to Jacob Dolson Cox

Box 2

Folder 1: Transcriptions of Correspondence, Jacob Dolson Cox from William Tecumseh Sherman, 1875-1891, 1994: Transcriptions of 23 letters.

Series 4: Correspondence Transcriptions, Jacob Dolson Cox and Helen Finney Cox

Box 1

Folder 1: Transcriptions of Correspondence, Helen Finney Cochran Cox and Jacob Dolson Cox, undated: 1861-1865 notebook, 1 volume. A digital version of the transcriptions is available.

Series 5: Miscellaneous Correspondence

Box 1

Folder 1: Correspondence, Charles Grandison Finney from Sylvester Finney, 1829
Folder 2: Correspondence, Charles Grandison Finney from J.K. Livingston, 1848
Folder 3: Correspondence, Charles Grandison Finney from S.D. Porter, 1848
Folder 4: Correspondence, Helen Finney Cox from Samuel Cochran, 1848
Folder 5: Correspondence, Helen Finney Cox from Lydia Root Andrews Finney, 1846 May: Note from Charles Grandison Finney.
Folder 6: Correspondence, Helen Finney Cox from Julia Finney Monroe, 1858-1862
Folder 7: Correspondence, Helen Finney Cox from "Cousin Frank", 1864: Possibly from Francis Cole
Folder 8: Correspondence, Helen Finney Cox from Unknown Correspondent, undated

Subgroup 2: Files Relating to the William C. Cochran Family

Series 1: Correspondence, William Cochran and Family

Subseries 1: Correspondence Received from Jacob Dolson Cox

Box 1

Folder 1: Correspondence, William Cochran from Jacob Dolson Cox, 1860-1873: 14 items.

Subseries 2: Correspondence Received from Helen Finney Cox

Box 1

Folder 1: Correspondence, William Cochran from Helen Finney Cox, 1860-1911: 178 items.
Folder 2: Correspondence, William Cochran from Helen Finney Cox, 1860-1911: 178 items.
Folder 3: Correspondence, William Cochran from Helen Finney Cox, 1860-1911: 178 items.
Folder 4: Correspondence, William Cochran from Helen Finney Cox, 1860-1911: 178 items.
Folder 5: Correspondence, William Cochran from Helen Finney Cox, 1860-1911: 178 items.

Subseries 3: Correspondence Received from Rosa Dale Allen Cochran

Box 1

Folder 1: Correspondence, William Cochran from Rosa Dale Allen Cochran, 1878-1923: 47 items.

Subseries 4: Correspondence Received from Children

Box 1

Folder 1: Correspondence, WIlliam and Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Allen Deane Cochran, 1907-1925, undated: 57 items.
Folder 2: Correspondence, WIlliam and Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Frances Cochran, 1906-1911: 24 items.
Folder 3: Correspondence, WIlliam and Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Frances Cochran and Mary Rudd Cochran, 1917
Folder 4: Correspondence, WIlliam and Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Helen Finney Cochran, 1904-1911

Box 2

Folder 1: Correspondence, WIlliam and Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Helen Finney Cochran, 1918-1921: 181 items.
Folder 2: Correspondence, WIlliam and Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Helen Finney Cochran, 1918-1921: 181 items.
Folder 3: Correspondence, WIlliam and Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Helen Finney Cochran, 1918-1921: 181 items.
Folder 4: Correspondence, WIlliam and Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Helen Finney Cochran, 1918-1921: 181 items.
Folder 5: Correspondence, WIlliam and Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Helen Finney Cochran, 1918-1921: 181 items.
Folder 6: Correspondence, WIlliam and Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Helen Finney Cochran, 1918-1921: 181 items.
Folder 7: Correspondence, WIlliam and Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Helen Finney Cochran, 1918-1921: 181 items.
Folder 8: Correspondence, WIlliam and Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Mary Rudd Cochran, 1920-1921: 2 items.

Subseries 5: Correspondence Received from Other Family Members

Box 2

Folder 1: Correspondence, William Cochran from Helen Hudson Allen, 1929-1931: 4 items.
Folder 2: Correspondence, William Cochran from John Black, 1881
Folder 3: Correspondence, William Cochran from Frances Hall Chaney (Strong), 1864-1903: 20 items.
Folder 4: Correspondence, William Cochran from Hale Chaney, 1916-1920: 5 items.
Folder 5: Correspondence, William Cochran from Henry A. Chaney, 1881-1888: 2 items.
Folder 6: Correspondence, William Cochran from Alice Cochran, 1914: 2 items.
Folder 7: Correspondence, William Cochran from Elmer G. Cochran, 1909
Folder 8: Correspondence, William Cochran from Ermina "Minnie" Day Cochran, 1870-1882: 32 items.
Folder 9: Correspondence, William Cochran from Ermina "Minnie" Day Cochran, 1870-1882: 32 items.
Folder 10: Correspondence, William Cochran from Charles Finney Cox, 1864-1900: 35 items.
Folder 11: Correspondence, William Cochran from Charles Norton Cox, 1876
Folder 12: Correspondence, William Cochran from Helen Finney Cox (Black), 1870-1918: 14 items.
Folder 13: Correspondence, William Cochran from Kattie Norton Cox, 1911

Box 3

Folder 1: Correspondence, William Cochran from Jacob Dolson Cox, Junior, 1870-1923: 108 items.
Folder 2: Correspondence, William Cochran from Jacob Dolson Cox, Junior, 1870-1923: 108 items.
Folder 3: Correspondence, William Cochran from Jacob Dolson Cox, Junior, 1870-1923: 108 items.
Folder 4: Correspondence, William Cochran from Jacob Dolson Cox III, 1930-1931: 5 items.
Folder 5: Correspondence, William Cochran from Kenyon Cox, 1870-1912: 11 items.
Folder 6: Correspondence, William Cochran from Louise Cox, 1919
Folder 7: Correspondence, William Cochran from Samuel Houghton Cox, 1907
Folder 8: Correspondence, William Cochran from Edith C. Fargo, undated
Folder 9: Correspondence, William Cochran from Emma Monroe Fitch, 1929-1930: 2 items.
Folder 10: Correspondence, William Cochran from William Gilchrist, 1880-1905: 2 items. 1905 letter from P. Wallace Gilchrist.
Folder 11: Correspondence, William Cochran from Martha Geary, 1868
Folder 12: Correspondence, William Cochran from Frances C. Hall, 1872
Folder 13: Correspondence, William Cochran from Charles E. Monroe, 1929-1930: 6 items.
Folder 14: Correspondence, William Cochran from Julia Finney Monroe, 1860-1916: 8 items.
Folder 15: Correspondence, William Cochran from Maria J. Monroe, 1931
Folder 16: Correspondence, William Cochran from Hope Cox Pope, 1907-1935, undated: 20 items.
Folder 17: Correspondence, William Cochran from John H. Pope, 1913
Folder 18: Correspondence, William Cochran from Frances Cole Reamer, ca. 1872

Subseries 6: Correspondence, Cochran Children

Box 3

Folder 1: Correspondence, Allen Deane Cochran and Carrie Nelson Allen, 1919
Folder 2: Correspondence, Allen Deane Cochran and Frances Cochran, 1909
Folder 3: Correspondence, Allen Deane Cochran and Mary Rudd Cochran, Helen Finney Cochran, 1902
Folder 4: Correspondence, Allen Deane Cochran and William S. Cochran, 1919
Folder 5: Correspondence, Helen Finney Cochran and Alice Woodworth Allen, 1906
Folder 6: Correspondence, Helen Finney Cochran and Allen Deane Cochran, 1906
Folder 7: Correspondence, Helen Finney Cochran and Cochran Family, 1909-1910
Folder 8: Correspondence, Dr. Thomas H. Norton to Children of William C. Cochran, 1936
Folder 9: Correspondence, Frances Cochran and Allyn Cox, 1977
Folder 10: Correspondence, William S. Cochran and Carrie Allen, 1916
Folder 11: Correspondence, Helen Finney Cochran Cox to Albert Grafton, 1910
Folder 12: Correspondence, Jacob Dolson Cox, Junior, to Helen Finney Cochran Cox, 1905: With Cox genealogical chart.
Folder 13: Correspondence, Kenyon Cox and Julia Finney Monroe, 1912
Folder 14: Correspondence, Hope Cox Pope and Jacob Dolson Cox, Junior, 1917
Folder 15: Correspondence, Hope Cox Pope and Jacob Dolson Cox, III, 1933
Folder 16: Correspondence, Unknown Correspondent to Cochran Family, 1866

Subseries 7: Correspondence Received from Others

Box 3

Folder 1: Correspondence Received from William H. Anderson, 1911
Folder 2: Correspondence Received from Frederick Bancroft, 1912-1916: 3 items.
Folder 3: Correspondence Received from William H. Brett, 1865-1878: 22 items.
Folder 4: Correspondence Received from Emma J. Carl, 1923-1925: 2 items.
Folder 5: Correspondence Received from Henry F. Clark, 1871-1874: 4 items.
Folder 6: Correspondence Received from Mary Keep Clark, 1929-1930: 4 items.
Folder 7: Correspondence Received from S.M. Cole, 1905: 2 items. Enclosure from Lawrence Wilson.
Folder 8: Correspondence Received from W.C. Cole, 1872
Folder 9: Correspondence Received from A.G. Comings, 1925
Folder 10: Correspondence Received from Luther Cochran Cook, 1882
Folder 11: Correspondence Received from James Harris Fairchild, 1871-1880: 6 items.
Folder 12: Correspondence Received from Sallie Faran, 1874: 2 items.
Folder 13: Correspondence Received from Frederick Norton Finney, 1915
Folder 14: Correspondence Received from C.C. Fisher, 1882

Box 4

Folder 1: Correspondence Received from Charles N. Fitch, 1870
Folder 2: Correspondence Received from Frank S. Fitch, 1883
Folder 3: Correspondence Received from John Gallaher, 1873
Folder 4: Correspondence Received from Alex Geyer, 1871-1872: 3 items.
Folder 5: Correspondence Received from Alexander Haddan, 1923
Folder 6: Correspondence Received from Edmund Hall, 1888
Folder 7: Correspondence Received from L. Belle Hamlin, 1905
Folder 8: Correspondence Received from W.H. Harding, 1911
Folder 9: Correspondence Received from Harry W. Hughes, 1917
Folder 10: Correspondence Received from R.J.O. Hunter, 1873
Folder 11: Correspondence Received from Clayton Jameson, 1862: 2 items.
Folder 12: Correspondence Received from Frank Fanning Jewett, 1922
Folder 13: Correspondence Received from Charles Kinsman, 1863
Folder 14: Correspondence Received from Wells Leggett, 1863
Folder 15: Correspondence Received from William Lyman, 1862-1863: 5 items.
Folder 16: Correspondence Received from James Marvin, 1865: 2 items.
Folder 17: Correspondence Received from Lizzie Morgan, ca. 1878
Folder 18: Correspondence Received from Morril and Jordan, 1906
Folder 19: Correspondence Received from Dr. Thomas H. Norton, 1935
Folder 20: Correspondence Received from Charles S. Paine, 1915: 5 items.
Folder 21: Correspondence Received from H.A. Pulte, 1865-1869: 7 items.
Folder 22: Correspondence Received from M.M. Quaife, 1915
Folder 23: Correspondence Received from Isiah Reynolds, 1865
Folder 24: Correspondence Received from Charles Scribners' Sons, 1900: 2 items.
Folder 25: Correspondence Received from William Tecumseh Sherman, 1870
Folder 26: Correspondence Received from C.M. Sockett, 1862-1868: 2 items.
Folder 27: Correspondence Received from Merritt Star, 1926
Folder 28: Correspondence Received from L.L. Turney, 1893
Folder 29: Correspondence Received from A. Wentz, 1864
Folder 30: Correspondence Received from Ernest H. Wilkins, 1931
Folder 31: Correspondence Received from George L. Williams, 1931
Folder 32: Correspondence Received from Lawrence Wilson, undated: See S.M. Cole
Folder 33: Correspondence Received from Lucy Wyman, 1872
Folder 34: Correspondence Received from Unknown Correspondent, 1864

Subseries 8: Correspondence, Allen Deane Cochran and Family

Accession 1997/106

Box 5

Folder 1: Correspondence, Allen Deane Cochran from Al Biringer, 1928
Folder 2: Correspondence, Allen Deane Cochran from Mary Rudd Cochran, 1933-1971: 12 items.
Folder 3: Correspondence, Allen Deane Cochran from William C. Cochran, 1930-1932: 3 items.
Folder 4: Correspondence, Allen Deane Cochran from William S. Cochran, 1934
Folder 5: Correspondence, Allen Deane Cochran from Ralph Hillbom, 1950-1954: 3 items.
Folder 6: Correspondence, Allen Deane Cochran from Carolyn Allen Lang, 1943-1950: 4 items.
Folder 7: Correspondence, Allen Deane Cochran from Frances Cochran MacDaniels, 1938-1946: 4 items.
Folder 8: Correspondence, Allen Deane Cochran from Marion Cochran Potter, 1953-1954, undated: 5 items.
Folder 9: Correspondence, Allen Deane Cochran from Chaby Waterous, 1949
Folder 10: Correspondence, Allen Deane Cochran, Commissions and Sale of Art, 1921-1963, undated: 36 items.
Folder 11: Correspondence, Allen Deane Cochran, Veterans Administration, 1931-1963: 19 items.
Folder 12: Correspondence, Allen Deane Cochran to William C. Cochran, 1909-1932, undated: 9 items.
Folder 13: Correspondence, William C. Cochran from Rosa Dale Allen Cochran, 1911: 2 items.
Folder 14: Correspondence, William C. Cochran from J.D. Cox, Junior, 1911
Folder 15: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Allen Deane Cochran, 1909-1912, undated: 18 items.
Folder 16: Correspondence, William C. Cochran, 1883-1911: 3 items.
Folder 17: Correspondence, Laura J. Rose, 1911
Folder 18: Correspondence, Norman Potter from Charles and Jeanette Behre, 1971: 2 items.
Folder 19: Correspondence, Norman Potter from Mary Rudd Cochran, 1971-1973: 9 items.
Folder 20: Correspondence, Alice Rose Cochran and Laura J. Rose, 1911
Folder 21: Correspondence, Unknown Correspondent, 1934

Series 2: Outgoing Correspondence, William C. and Rose Dale Allen Cochran

Subseries 1: Outgoing Correspondence, William C. Cochran

Box 1

Folder 1: Correspondence, William C. Cochran to John Black, 1903-1905: 5 items.
Folder 2: Correspondence, William C. Cochran to Samuel D. Cochran, 1901
Folder 3: Correspondence, William C. Cochran to William S. Cochran, 1926
Folder 4: Correspondence, William C. Cochran to Helen Finney Cochran Cox, 1862-1876: 125 items. Includes letters from 1871 European travel addressed to other family members.
Folder 5: Correspondence, William C. Cochran to Helen Finney Cochran Cox, 1862-1876: 125 items. Includes letters from 1871 European travel addressed to other family members.
Folder 6: Correspondence, William C. Cochran to Helen Finney Cochran Cox, 1862-1876: 125 items. Includes letters from 1871 European travel addressed to other family members.
Folder 7: Correspondence, William C. Cochran to Helen Finney Cochran Cox, 1862-1876: 125 items. Includes letters from 1871 European travel addressed to other family members.
Folder 8: Correspondence, William C. Cochran to Sallie Faran, 1874: 2 items.
Folder 9: Correspondence, William C. Cochran to Mr. Fisher, 1916
Folder 10: Correspondence, William C. Cochran to Emeline C. Hall, 1866
Folder 11: Correspondence, William C. Cochran to Julia Finney Monroe, 1928
Folder 12: Correspondence, William C. Cochran to Oberlin Class of ’69, 1923
Folder 13: Correspondence, William C. Cochran to Daniel J. Ryan, 1910
Folder 14: Correspondence, William C. Cochran to Charlie, 1881-1900: 2 items.
Folder 15: Correspondence, William C. Cochran to Unknown Correspondent, 1878
Folder 16: Correspondence, William C. Cochran to Unknown Correspondent, 1925

Subseries 2: Outgoing Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran

Box 1

Folder 1: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran to Frances Cochran, 1907: 2 items.
Folder 2: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran to Helen Finney Cochran, 1907
Folder 3: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran to Alice Woodworth Leighton, 1906
Folder 4: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran to Emma Monroe, 1872
Folder 5: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran to Jimmie Post, 1860
Folder 6: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran to Anna, 1895

Series 3: Incoming Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran

Subseries 1: Corresponence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from the Cochran Family

Box 1

Folder 1: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from William C. Cochran, 1883-1925: 16 items.
Folder 2: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Marion Cochran, 1924

Subseries 2: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Extended Family

Box 1

Folder 1: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Alice Allen, 1916
Folder 2: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Caroline Mary Rudd Allen, 1889
Folder 3: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Carolyn Bushnell Allen, 1923: 2 items.
Folder 4: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Carrie Nelson Allen, undated
Folder 5: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Frederic Baylie Allen, 1910
Folder 6: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Helen Hudson Allen, 1922-1925, undated: 23 items.
Folder 7: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Katherine Deforest Allen, 1923: 2 items.
Folder 8: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Mary Rudd Allen, 1889-1890: 3 items.
Folder 9: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Mary Severance Clark, 1923
Folder 10: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Jeanette Cox, undated
Folder 11: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Laura Rose, 1925: 4 items.
Folder 12: Correspondence, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran from Unknown Correspondent, 1907

Series 4: Miscellaneous Historical Materials Relating to William C. Cochran

Box 1

Folder 1: William C. Cochran, Calling Cards, undated: With bill from Europe.
Folder 2: William C. Cochran, Invitations to Attend Warren, Ohio, Alumni Gatherings, 1863-1866
Folder 3: William C. Cochran, Membership Cards, 1874-1891
Folder 4: William C. Cochran, Photographic Cards of Europe, Kentucky, and Minnesota, undated
Folder 5: William C. Cochran, Receipts, 1868-1887
Folder 6: William C. Cochran, Speech to Graduates of Miami Medical College, 1900
Folder 7: William C. Cochran, Description of Spelling Bee Contest, undated

Box 2

Folder 1: William C. Cochran, Appraisal of Property, 1936
Folder 2: William C. Cochran, Books Read, 1869-1873: Index and record.
Folder 3: William C. Cochran, Distribution of Personal Property, Memorandum, 1925: Distribution of personal property not mentioned in will.
Folder 4: William C. Cochran, Journal, 1880-1881
Folder 5: William C. Cochran, Last Will and Testament, 1931
Folder 6: William C. Cochran, List of Reported Cases, 1872-1901
Folder 7: William C. Cochran, Members of the Men's Club, Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church, 1901-1902
Folder 8: William C. Cochran, Property Belonging to William C. Cochran, Memorandum, 1926-1927
Folder 9: William C. Cochran, Publication Fund Contract, 1934: Relating to dispersal after death.
Folder 10: William C. Cochran, Publication Fund, Memorandum, ca. 1920
Folder 11: William C. Cochran, Scrapbook, 1868-1890
Folder 12: William C. Cochran, Supposed Benefits Received from J.D. Cox, Memorandum, undated

Series 5: Miscellaneous Publications Belonging to William C. Cochran

Subseries 1: Cultural Publications File

Box 1

Folder 1: Cultural Files, 1883-1929: e.g. Cincinnati Law Library Assocation
Folder 2: Cultural Files, 1883-1929: e.g. Cincinnati Law Library Assocation
Folder 3: Cultural Files, 1883-1929: e.g. Cincinnati Law Library Assocation
Folder 4: Cultural Files, 1883-1929: e.g. Cincinnati Law Library Assocation
Folder 5: Cultural Files, 1883-1929: e.g. Cincinnati Law Library Assocation
Folder 6: Cultural Files, 1883-1929: e.g. Cincinnati Law Library Assocation

Box 2

Folder 1: Miscellaneous Programs and Fliers, 1864-1918
Folder 2: Organizational Files, 1881-1935: e.g. Chess Association, Literary Club

Subseries 2: Religious Publications File

Box 2

Folder 1: Religious Files, 1819-1921: e.g. Woman's Missionary Society
Folder 2: Religious Files, 1819-1921: e.g. Woman's Missionary Society
Folder 3: Religious Files, 1819-1921: e.g. Woman's Missionary Society

Subseries 3: Oberlin College Publications

Box 3

Folder 1: Oberlin College Files, 1848-1930s: e.g. Oberlin College Alumni Magazine
Folder 2: Oberlin College Files, 1848-1930s: e.g. Oberlin College Alumni Magazine

Series 6: Miscellaneous Materials Relating to Cochran Family

Subseries 1: Family Records File

Box 1

Folder 1: Cochran-Allen Family Record, 1882, undated: Original.
Folder 2: Cochran-Allen Family Record, Copy, undated
Folder 3: Biographical Essays, 1892-1959: By various family members.
Folder 4: Cochran Family in the United States, undated
Folder 5: Cox Genealogy, Copy, undated
Folder 6: Finney Family Notes, 1880-1947, undated
Folder 7: Obituaries, Clippings, Miscellaneous, ca. 1876-1972

Subseries 2: Family Notebooks

Box 2

Folder 1: Samuel D. Cochran, Notebook, 1841-1847
Folder 2: Helen Finney Cochran, "History of Art", 1905-1906
Folder 3: Helen Finney Cochran Cox, Notebook, 1849-1852
Folder 4: [William C. Cochran?], Notebook, 1870
Folder 5: "A Cruise in the Seven Seas of the Philippines," Hope Cox Pope, ca. 1903

Subseries 3: Miscellaneous Material File

Box 3

Folder 1: Account Book, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran, 1881-1903
Folder 2: Bylaws of the Home Literary Union, undated
Folder 3: Certificate of Ownership, Plot at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Jacob Dolson Cox, 1868
Folder 4: Cox Family Cemetery Plat, Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, ca. 1922
Folder 5: Correspondence, E. Whitney to Unknown Correspondent, 1787?
Folder 6: Unfinished Letter, undated
Folder 7: Miscellaneous Oberlin College Material, 1896-1920
Folder 8: Miscellaneous Oberlin College Material, 1896-1920
Folder 9: Miscellaneous Material, Allen Deane Cochran, 1917-1919: Regarding WWI.
Folder 10: Miscellaneous Material, Samuel Cochran, 1889-1905: Regarding assignment of copyright, resignation of pastoral position in Iowa.
Folder 11: Miscellaneous Material and Clipping, Kenyon Cox, 1910: Includes poem and transcribed letter to UCD club.
Folder 12: Probate Documents, Estate of Rosa Dale Cochran, 1926
Folder 13: Property Distribution List, Helen Finney Cochran Cox, 1906
Folder 14: Receipt, J.D. Cox, 1895
Folder 15: Six Great Grandsons of C.G. Finney, 1919: Regarding service in WWI.
Folder 16: Thayer College, Commencement Speech and College Introduction, President Samuel Cochran, 1872
Folder 17: "Women's Share in the Civil War," Helen Finney Cochran Cox, ca. 1891
Folder 18: Unidentified, undated

Box 4

Folder 1: Sheet Music, ca. 1850s-1887, undated: 11 items.
Folder 2: Physical Education Records, Helen Finney Cochran, 1902-1906

Subseries 4: Miscellaneous Material Relating to Allen Deane Cochran and Family

Accession 1997/106

Box 5

Folder 1: Certificates, License as Radio Operator, Alice Rose Cochran, 1918
Folder 2: Certificates, United States Army, Promotion and Discharge, 1918-1957
Folder 3: Certificates, United States Army Air Forces, Ground Observer Corps, 1943
Folder 4: Clippings, 1920s-1970s
Folder 5: Passport, undated
Folder 6: War Rations Book, Marion Cochran Porter, 1941: World War II-era ration book.
Folder 7: Bank Promissory Loan Documents, 1951-1963
Folder 8: Certificate, Social Security Award, 1958
Folder 9: Insurance Policies, 1963
Folder 10: Invoices, 1915-1962
Folder 11: Last Will and Testament, 1970
Folder 12: Probate Documents, Estates of William C. Cochran and Allen Deane Cochran, 1936-1974
Folder 13: Art-Related Files, undated: See also subgroup 2, series 7.
Folder 14: Catalog, Summer School of the Art Students' League at Woodstock, New York, 1909
Folder 15: Christmas Cards, undated: Featuring Allen Deane Cochran's artwork.
Folder 16: Drawings, 1899, undated
Folder 17: Programs, Allen Deane Cochran Art Show, 1976

Series 7: Photographs and Non-Textual Materials

Box 1

Item 1: Portrait, Frederick DeForest Allen, undated: 2 photographs.
Item 2: Portrait, Edmund Hall Chaney: 3 months.
Item 3: Portrait, Allen Deane Cochran, 1919, undated
Item 4: Portrait, Helen Finney Cochran, 1908, undated
Item 5: Portrait, Rosa Dale Allen Cochran, 1884
Item 6: Portrait, Samuel Cochran, ca. 1904, undated
Item 7: Portrait, William C. Cochran, 1898, 1912, undated: 3 photographs.
Item 8: Portrait, William S. Cochran, undated
Item 9: Portrait, Helen Finney Cochran Cox, ca. 1862
Item 10: Portrait, Jacob Dolson Cox, ca. 1862-1865: 2 photographs.
Item 11: Portrait, Maria DeForest, undated
Item 12: Portrait, James H. Fairfield, 1871
Item 13: Portrait, Ellen MacDaniels Speers, 1923
Item 14: Group Photograph, William C. Cochran Family, 1884-1896
Item 15: Group Photograph, Cochran-Allen Family, Christmas, 1910
Item 16: Group Photograph, Cochran-Allen Family, Cincinnati, ca. 1889
Item 17: Group Photograph, Cox-Cochran Family on J.D. Cox Porch, ca. 1889
Item 18: Group Photograph, Cox-Cochran-Allen Family on J.D. Cox Porch, 1889
Item 19: Group Photograph, Children of John Cochran, 1879: John Cochran was William C. Cochran's grandfather.
Item 20: Group Photograph, Four Gables, Geneva-on-the-Lake, 1914: 8 photographs.
Item 21: Group Photograph, Mr. & Mrs. George N. Allen, Grandchildren, 1893
Item 22: Group Photograph, "Mr. and Mrs. H.P. Hopkins – taken by request for a brother in India", 1886
Item 23: Group Photograph, Miscellaneous, 1923, undated
Item 24: Group Photograph, Oberlin College Faculty, ca. 1860s
Item 25: Group Photograph, "The Orphans", undated
Item 26: "Allen Residence, Baldwin Cottage," Oberlin, Ohio, 1890
Item 27: "Alley on Mount Auburn," Cincinnati, Ohio, 1889
Item 28: "Art Museum, Shelter House, Old Observatory, Highland House,", 1886
Item 29: Carnegie Library, Oberlin, Ohio, undated
Item 30: "Eden Park, Entrance, Willie (?), Art Museum", 1886
Item 31: Finney Memorial Chapel, Oberlin, Ohio, undated: 2 photographs.
Item 32: Finney Memorial Chapel, Oberlin, Ohio, Negatives, undated: 2 photographs.
Item 33: The Hapgood House, Warren, Ohio, ca. 1852
Item 34: Peters Hall, Oberlin, Ohio, undated
Item 35: Prentiss Memorial, undated
Item 36: "Residence of J.D. Cox and View from W.R. Kidd's Library Window," Cincinnati, Ohio, ca. 1890
Item 37: "Residence of J.D. Cox," Warren, Ohio, 1890
Item 38: "Residence of C.G. Finney," Oberlin, Ohio, ca. 1890
Item 39: "Residences of J.D. Cox, W.C. Cochran, Arthur Davis," Mt. Auburn, Cincinnati, Ohio, undated
Item 40: "245 Gilman Avenue," Cincinnati, Ohio, ca. 1890
Item 41: "View from Top of William C. Cochran's House", 1886
Item 42: Unidentified Photographs, undated: 5 photographs.
Item 43: Photographs, Paintings by Allen Deane Cochran, undated: Paintings, Chicago Institute of Art (2); Paintings, Summer School of the Art Students' League?; Paintings (4)
Item 44: Photographs, Portraits by Allen Deane Cochran, ca. 1943, undated: Willard Allen; Bob Brinkman; Jane Britton; Anna Comstock; Judge Cutler; Louise Quigley, ca. 1943
Item 45: Photograph, Allen Deane Cochran, 1892, undated
Item 46: Photograph, Allen Deane Cochran Home, Woodstock, New York, 1914
Item 47: Photograph, Alice Rose Cochran with Marion Ledyard Cochran, 1912
Item 48: Photograph, Art Students, Summer School of the Art Students' League, undated
Item 49: Photograph, Camp Rest-a-While, 1904
Item 50: Photograph, Edith Cole Shattuck, William C. Cochran, Mary Thompson Moore, Oberlin, Ohio, 1929
Item 51: Photograph, Marion Cochran Potter and Allen Deane Cochran, 1956
Item 52: Unidentified, Woodstock, New York, ca. 1920s: 2 photographs.
Item 53: Photograph, Unidentified, undated: 2 photographs.
Item 54: Print, Finney Memorial Chapel, Oberlin College, undated
Item 55: Print, "Progress of Civilization. I. Hunting," Kenyon Cox, 1907: Signed.
Item 56: Print, "Progress of Civilization. II. Herding," Kenyon Cox, 1907: Signed.
Item 57: Print, "Progress of Civilization. III. Agriculture," Kenyon Cox, 1907: Signed.
Item 58: Print, "Progress of Civilization. IV. Industry," Kenyon Cox, 1907: Signed.
Item 59: Print, Print, "Progress of Civilization. V. Commerce," Kenyon Cox, 1907: Signed.
Item 60: "Print, "Progress of Civilization. VI. Education," Kenyon Cox, 1907: Signed.
Item 61: Print, "Progress of Civilization. VII. Science," Kenyon Cox, 1907: Signed.
Item 62: "Passing Commerce Pays Tribute to the Port of Cleveland," Kenyon Cox, 1909: Signed.
Item 63: "Passing Commerce Pays Tribute to the Port of Cleveland," Kenyon Cox, 1909: Signed.

Box 2

Photograph Album 1: William C. Cochran, ca. 1886: See 30/276 for other William C. Cochran photograph albums.
Photograph Album 2: Helen Finney Cochran, undated

Box 3

Folder 1: Plate Photographs, undated: Lantern slide glass plates, Carbutt's Gelatino-Albumen plates, Keystone dry plate works, "E. Tenn. Views": Jacob Dolson Cox; possibly Mary, Helen, and Will Cochran as children; possibly Mary, Helen, Will, and Allen as children; man on horseback, view of fences and structures; mountain views (2), cabin and 2 children, possibly Rosa Dale Allen Cochran and child
Item 2: Printer's Block, George Nelson Allen Portrait, undated

Series 8: Scrapbooks, ca. 1870s-1979

Box 1

Item 1: Scrapbook, Ellen Spears, "Cochran-Cox-Allen-Rudd Family Members", ca. 1870s-1979: Photographs, clippings, letters, and miscellaneous items. Accession 1997/114.

Subgroup 3: Research Files and Writings of William C. Cochran

Series 1: Research Files

Subseries 1: Newspaper Extracts

Box 1

Folder 1: Newspaper Lists, undated
Item 2: Cincinnati Commercial, 1864-1866
Item 3: Cincinnati Commercial, 1864-1866
Item 4: Cincinnati Commercial, 1864-1866
Item 5: Cincinnati Commercial, 1864-1866
Item 6: Cincinnati Commercial, 1864-1866
Item 7: Cincinnati Commercial, 1864-1866
Item 8: Cincinnati Commercial, 1864-1866
Item 9: Cincinnati Commercial, 1864-1866
Item 10: Cincinnati Commercial, 1864-1866
Item 11: Cincinnati Commercial, 1864-1866
Item 12: Cincinnati Commercial, 1864-1866

Box 2

Item 1: Cincinnati Commercial, 1866-1867
Item 2: Cincinnati Commercial, 1866-1867
Item 3: Cincinnati Commercial, 1866-1867
Item 4: Cincinnati Commercial, 1866-1867
Item 5: Cincinnati Commercial, 1866-1867
Item 6: Cincinnati Commercial, 1866-1867
Item 7: Cincinnati Commercial, 1866-1867
Item 8: Cincinnati Commercial, 1866-1867
Item 9: Cincinnati Commercial, 1866-1867
Item 10: Cincinnati Commercial, 1866-1867
Item 11: Cincinnati Commercial, 1866-1867

Box 3

Item 1: Cincinnati Commercial, 1868-1870
Item 2: Cincinnati Commercial, 1868-1870
Item 3: Cincinnati Commercial, 1868-1870
Item 4: Cincinnati Commercial, 1868-1870
Item 5: Cincinnati Commercial, 1868-1870
Item 6: Cincinnati Commercial, 1868-1870
Item 7: Cincinnati Commercial, 1868-1870
Item 8: Cincinnati Commercial, 1868-1870
Item 9: Cincinnati Commercial, 1868-1870
Item 10: Cincinnati Commercial, 1868-1870
Item 11: Cincinnati Commercial, 1868-1870
Item 12: Cincinnati Commercial, 1868-1870

Box 4

Item 1: Cincinnati Commercial, 1870
Item 2: Cincinnati Commercial, 1870
Item 3: Cincinnati Commercial, 1870
Item 4: Cincinnati Commercial, 1870
Item 5: Cincinnati Commercial, 1870
Item 6: Cincinnati Commercial, 1870

Box 5

Item 1: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1864-1866
Item 2: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1864-1866
Item 3: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1864-1866
Item 4: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1864-1866
Item 5: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1864-1866
Item 6: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1864-1866
Item 7: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1864-1866
Item 8: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1864-1866
Item 9: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1864-1866
Item 10: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1864-1866
Item 11: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1864-1866

Box 6

Item 1: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1866-1867
Item 2: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1866-1867
Item 3: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1866-1867
Item 4: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1866-1867
Item 5: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1866-1867
Item 6: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1866-1867
Item 7: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1866-1867

Box 7

Item 1: Cincinnati Enquirer, 1864-1867
Item 2: Cincinnati Enquirer, 1864-1867
Item 3: Cincinnati Enquirer, 1864-1867
Item 4: Cincinnati Enquirer, 1864-1867
Item 5: Cincinnati Enquirer, 1864-1867
Item 6: Cincinnati Enquirer, 1864-1867
Item 7: Cincinnati Enquirer, 1864-1867
Item 8: Cincinnati Enquirer, 1864-1867
Item 9: Cincinnati Enquirer, 1864-1867
Item 10: Cincinnati Enquirer, 1864-1867
Item 11: Cincinnati Enquirer, 1864-1867
Item 12: Cincinnati Enquirer, 1864-1867
Item 13: Cincinnati Enquirer, 1864-1867

Box 8

Item 1: The Cleveland Leader, 1859-1868: 1859, 1865-1868
Item 2: The Cleveland Leader, 1859-1868: 1859, 1865-1868
Item 3: The Cleveland Leader, 1859-1868: 1859, 1865-1868
Item 4: The Cleveland Leader, 1859-1868: 1859, 1865-1868
Item 5: The Cleveland Leader, 1859-1868: 1859, 1865-1868
Item 6: The Cleveland Leader, 1859-1868: 1859, 1865-1868
Item 7: The Cleveland Leader, 1859-1868: 1859, 1865-1868
Item 8: The Cleveland Leader, 1859-1868: 1859, 1865-1868
Item 9: The Cleveland Leader, 1859-1868: 1859, 1865-1868
Item 10: The Cleveland Leader, 1859-1868: 1859, 1865-1868
Item 11: The Cleveland Leader, 1859-1868: 1859, 1865-1868
Item 12: The Cleveland Leader, 1859-1868: 1859, 1865-1868
Item 13: The Cleveland Leader, 1859-1868: 1859, 1865-1868

Box 9

Item 1: The Cleveland Herald, 1858-1868: 1858, 1864-1868
Item 2: The Cleveland Herald, 1858-1868: 1858, 1864-1868
Item 3: The Cleveland Herald, 1858-1868: 1858, 1864-1868
Item 4: The Cleveland Herald, 1858-1868: 1858, 1864-1868
Item 5: The Cleveland Herald, 1858-1868: 1858, 1864-1868
Item 6: The Cleveland Herald, 1858-1868: 1858, 1864-1868
Item 7: The Cleveland Herald, 1858-1868: 1858, 1864-1868
Item 8: The Cleveland Herald, 1858-1868: 1858, 1864-1868
Item 9: The Cleveland Herald, 1858-1868: 1858, 1864-1868
Item 10: Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1858-1865
Item 11: Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1858-1865
Item 12: Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1858-1865

Box 10

Item 1: Columbus Morning Journal, 1866
Item 2: Marietta Register, 1864-1870
Item 3: Ohio State Journal, 1858-1866: 1858-1859, 1865-1866
Item 4: Ohio State Journal, 1858-1866: 1858-1859, 1865-1866
Item 5: Painesville Telegraph, 1865-1871: 4 volumes. Include excerpts from the Ashtabula Sentinel, 1865-1867.
Item 6: Painesville Telegraph, 1865-1871: 4 volumes. Include excerpts from the Ashtabula Sentinel, 1865-1867.
Item 7: Painesville Telegraph, 1865-1871: 4 volumes. Include excerpts from the Ashtabula Sentinel, 1865-1867.
Item 8: Painesville Telegraph, 1865-1871: 4 volumes. Include excerpts from the Ashtabula Sentinel, 1865-1867.
Item 9: Toledo Blade, 1870
Item 10: Toledo Blade, 1870
Item 11: Western Reserve Chronicle, 1862-1868: Includes excerpts from Portage County Democrat.
Item 12: Western Reserve Chronicle, 1862-1868: Includes excerpts from Portage County Democrat.
Folder 13: Miscellaneous Ohio Newspapers, undated: Ashtabula Sentinel, Guernsey Times, Elyria Independent Democrat, Lorain County Eagle, Jeffersonian Democrat, Norwalk Reflector, Oberlin Evangelist, Painesville Telegraph, Portage County Democrat, Portage Sentinel, Western Reserve Chronicle

Box 11

Item 1: Congressional Globe, 1860-1861
Item 2: The National Republican, 1870: Includes excerpts from the Daily Morning Chronicle, 1870.
Folder 3: Miscellaneous National Newspapers

Box 12

Item 1: Daily Constitutionalist, 1864-1867: Augusta, Georgia
Item 2: Daily Constitutionalist, 1864-1867: Augusta, Georgia
Item 3: Daily Constitutionalist, 1864-1867: Augusta, Georgia
Item 4: Daily Constitutionalist, 1864-1867: Augusta, Georgia
Item 5: Daily Constitutionalist, 1864-1867: Augusta, Georgia
Item 6: Daily Constitutionalist, 1864-1867: Augusta, Georgia
Item 7: Daily Constitutionalist, 1864-1867: Augusta, Georgia
Item 8: Daily Constitutionalist, 1864-1867: Augusta, Georgia
Item 9: Daily Constitutionalist, 1864-1867: Augusta, Georgia
Item 10: Daily Constitutionalist, 1864-1867: Augusta, Georgia
Item 11: Daily Constitutionalist, 1864-1867: Augusta, Georgia
Item 12: Daily Constitutionalist, 1864-1867: Augusta, Georgia
Item 13: Daily Constitutionalist, 1864-1867: Augusta, Georgia

Box 13

Item 1: Daily Constitutionalist , 1867: Augusta, Georgia
Item 2: Daily Constitutionalist , 1867: Augusta, Georgia
Item 3: Daily Constitutionalist , 1867: Augusta, Georgia
Item 4: Daily Constitutionalist , 1867: Augusta, Georgia
Item 5: Richmond Enquirer, 1864
Item 6: Richmond Sentinel, 1864
Item 7: Richmond Sentinel, 1864
Item 8: Richmond Whig, 1864-1865
Item 9: Miscellaneous Southern Newspapers
Item 10: Miscellaneous Southern Newspapers
Item 11: Miscellaneous Southern Newspapers
Item 12: Miscellaneous Southern Newspapers

Subseries 2: Miscellaneous Extracts and Notes

Box 14

Folder 1: "Extracts from Charles F. Cox's Scrapbook", 1861-1870
Folder 2: "Fugitive Slave and Rescue Cases", undated
Item 3: "Fugitive Slave Law and the Western Reserve", undated
Item 4: "Fugitive Slave Law and the Western Reserve", undated
Folder 5: "Lane Seminary and Rebels, Notes, ca. 1883
Folder 6: "Ohio State Laws and Resolutions", 1842-1861
Folder 7: "Ohio State Senate", 1858-1860

Box 15

Item 1: Pre-Civil War America
Item 2: Pre-Civil War America
Item 3: Pre-Civil War America
Item 4: Civil War Era
Item 5: Civil War Era
Item 6: Civil War Era
Item 7: Civil War and Reconstruction
Item 8: Military History
Item 9: Slave States
Item 10: Miscellaneous Extracts and Notes

Box 16

Folder 1: After the War A Southern Tour (Whitelaw Reid)
Folder 2: The American Indian as Slaveholder and Secessionist
Folder 3: Bancroft's History of the United States
Folder 4: Jay Cooke, Financier of the Civil War
Folder 5: Correspondence of Andrew Jackson and Beveridge's Life of John Marshall
Folder 6: "Important Historical Letters," Sherman Letters, North American Review, 1886 July
Folder 7: Knight's Popular History of England and Johnston's Negro in the New World
Folder 8: "Political Experiences of Major General Jacob D. Cox": Chapters XIII-IX
Item 9: Thirty Year's View, Thomas Benton
Item 10: Thirty Year's View, Thomas Benton
Item 11: Thirty Year's View, Thomas Benton
Folder 12: "Carl Schurz's Works"
Folder 13: The Union Pacific Railway, John P. Davis
Folder 14: Who Burnt Columbia? Official Depositions of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman and Gen. O.O. Howard, Part One, 1873

Series 2: Writings

Subseries 1: Writings About Jacob Dolson Cox

Box 1

Folder 1: "Early Life & Military Services of General Jacob Dolson Cox", 1901: Includes notes, typescript, and printed copies.
Folder 2: "Early Life & Military Services of General Jacob Dolson Cox", 1901: Includes notes, typescript, and printed copies.
Folder 3: "Early Life & Military Services of General Jacob Dolson Cox", 1901: Includes notes, typescript, and printed copies.
Folder 4: "Why General Cox Left Grant's Cabinet", undated

Box 2

Folder 1: "The Political Correspondence of Major General Jacob D. Cox," Volumes I-III, 1922: Typescript copy and index.
Folder 2: "The Political Correspondence of Major General Jacob D. Cox," Volumes I-III, 1922: Typescript copy and index.
Folder 3: "The Political Correspondence of Major General Jacob D. Cox," Volumes I-III, 1922: Typescript copy and index.
Folder 4: "The Political Correspondence of Major General Jacob D. Cox," Volumes I-III, 1922: Typescript copy and index.
Folder 5: "The Political Correspondence of Major General Jacob D. Cox," Volumes I-III, 1922: Typescript copy and index.
Folder 6: "The Political Correspondence of Major General Jacob D. Cox," Volumes I-III, 1922: Typescript copy and index.
Folder 7: "The Political Correspondence of Major General Jacob D. Cox," Volumes I-III, 1922: Typescript copy and index.
Folder 8: "The Political Correspondence of Major General Jacob D. Cox," Volumes I-III, 1922: Typescript copy and index.

Box 3

Folder 1: "The Political Correspondence of Major General Jacob D. Cox," I-III, 1922: Duplicate copy. Typescript and index.
Folder 2: "The Political Correspondence of Major General Jacob D. Cox," I-III, 1922: Duplicate copy. Typescript and index.
Folder 3: "The Political Correspondence of Major General Jacob D. Cox," I-III, 1922: Duplicate copy. Typescript and index.
Folder 4: "The Political Correspondence of Major General Jacob D. Cox," I-III, 1922: Duplicate copy. Typescript and index.

Box 4

Item 1: "The Political Experiences of Major General Jacob D. Cox", 1940: Bound and typed. Includes J.D. Cox biographical note by Mary R. Cochran and bibliographies of William C. Cochran and Jacob D. Cox. Accession 2001/094.
Item 2: "The Political Experiences of Major General Jacob D. Cox", 1940: Bound and typed. Includes J.D. Cox biographical note by Mary R. Cochran and bibliographies of William C. Cochran and Jacob D. Cox. Accession 2001/094.

Box 4A

Item 1: "The Political Experiences of Major General Jacob D. Cox", 1940: Bound and typed. Includes J.D. Cox biographical note by Mary R. Cochran and bibliographies of William C. Cochran and Jacob D. Cox. Accession 2001/094.
Item 2: "The Political Experiences of Major General Jacob D. Cox", 1940: Bound and typed. Includes J.D. Cox biographical note by Mary R. Cochran and bibliographies of William C. Cochran and Jacob D. Cox. Accession 2001/094.

Subseries 2: Other Writings by William C. Cochran

Box 5

Folder 1: Autobiography, William C. Cochran, undated
Folder 2: Autobiography, William C. Cochran, undated
Folder 3: Autobiography, William C. Cochran, undated
Folder 4: Autobiography, William C. Cochran, undated
Folder 5: Autobiography, William C. Cochran, undated
Folder 6: List of Papers Read Before the Literary Club, 1875-1890
Folder 7: "Address at Celebration of the Centenary of the Third Presbyterian Church, Rochester, NY", 1927
Folder 8: "The American Fleet in Montevideo", undated
Folder 9: "Another Japhet in Search of a Father", undated
Folder 10: "Apotheosis of Lincoln", 1920
Folder 11: "William H. Brett - the Friend", ca. 1918
Folder 12: "Colonial Laws and Lawyers", 1880
Folder 13: "Colored Men in College", undated
Folder 14: "Country Schools in the Fifties", 1910
Folder 15: "Kenyon Cox, Artist", undated
Folder 16: "Crimes and Pardons", 1926
Folder 17: "The Customs Matinee", 1899
Folder 18: "The Dream of a Northwestern Confederacy", 1916
Folder 19: "Early Baseball at Oberlin", 1925
Folder 20: "Early History of Phi Beta Kappa in Oberlin", undated: Partial.
Folder 21: "The English Language and Its Doctors", 1875
Folder 22: "The Ethics of Accomodation", 1915
Folder 23: "Charles Grandison Finney", 1908: Manuscript and printed copy. Accessions 1992/76 and 2002/4.
Folder 24: "Charles Grandison Finney", 1908: Manuscript and printed copy. Accessions 1992/76 and 2002/4.
Folder 25: "William Wallace Gilchrist", undated
Folder 26: "Edmund Hall", ca. 1903: Obituary.
Folder 27: "History of the Ohio Chess Association", 1907
Folder 28: "How Joe Settle Helped Nominate Hayes for President", undated
Folder 29: "In Memoriam: Charles Dake Crank, M.D.", 1917
Folder 30: "In Support of the Death Penalty", undated

Box 6

Folder 1: "Labor Legislation", undated
Folder 2: "Letters of a Cincinnati Lawyer to his Son at Yale", undated
Folder 3: "Life in Early Settlement Days in Oberlin", undated: Partial.
Folder 4: "Montreal: Church of Notre Dame", ca. 1907
Folder 5: "Movements of the Literary Club, 1872 to 1896", undated
Folder 6: "Oberlin and Cincinnati", undated: Partial.
Folder 7: "Oberlin: Town and College", undated
Folder 8: "Our First Honorary Member", undated
Folder 9: "The Party of One Idea", undated
Folder 10: "Pencilings Abroad" from the Enterprise, 1872
Folder 11: "Johnny Phillips, Substitute", undated
Folder 12: "Rochester and Charles G. Finney", ca. 1927
Folder 13: "Sage Self-Denial", 1916
Folder 14: "Stage Fright", 1917
Folder 15: The Students Law Lexicon: a Dictionary of Legal Words and Phrases with Appendices....Cincinnati: Robert Clark & Co. 1888: Accession 2002/4.
Folder 16: "The Tappans, Amistad, and African Missions", undated
Folder 17: "Three 'Ladies' or the Perils of a Fashionable Boarding House", undated
Folder 18: "Violetta: A Pantomime", undated: Written for UCD Club.
Folder 19: "George Washington - the Man", 1913
Folder 20: "The Wellington Rescue", 1911
Folder 21: The Western Reserve and the Fugitive Slave Law: a Prelude to the Civil War...Publication No. 101, Collections of the Western Reserve Historical Society. Cleveland, Ohio: 1920: Accession 2002/4.
Folder 22: "Young Socrates in London", undated
Folder 23: Legal Briefs by William C. Cochran, undated: Accession 2002/4. Given to Oberlin College Library by Gen. J.D. Cox.