Then, in 1863, he came to Sterling and worked in the Gazette office for two weeks, and re-enlisted, as Sergeant in Co. A, 140th Regt. Ill. Vol. Inf., for 100 days; went to Tennessee and Missouri, served his time and was discharged. Returning to Sterling, he was employed in the Gazette office for three years; then went to the Williams & Orton machine-shops and learned the machinist's. trade, at which he worked about ten years. Two years of this time he worked for the Keystone Manufacturing Company. When the depression in the iron trade came on, work was slack, and he bought out the tobacco and cigar store of Mr. S. Hubbard, since which time he has been in his present employment, on Third Street.
In his political views he is a Democrat; he is also a Freemason and a member of the G. A. R., and of the A. O. U. W. Mr. Cochran was married Sept. 24, 1876, to Miss Flora K. Petrie, of Pittsburg, Pa., and they have three children, Ollie M., Clara and William P.
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Chapman Brothers Publishing Co., Chicago, 1885
Frank Cochran, manufacturer of cigars and dealer in tobacco and newspapers, at Sterling, was born in Strasburg, Pa., March 3 1847, his parents being Amos E. and Barbara Cochran, natives respectively of Maryland and Pem1sylvania. The subject of this sketch remained at his parental home until he was 18 years of age, when he enlisted in the 122nd Regt. Pa. Vol. Inf., for nine months. Within a weak he was in Virginia, and during the second week he was engaged in the second battle of Bull Run; afterward he was in the engagements at Fredericksburg, Chancelorsville, and the regiment then went to Washington to bury the deceased Brigadier-General Whipple, as it was his wish that their regiment should perform that mournful task. They were then discharged, as their time had expired. Then, with some others of the regiment, he joined the 50th Militia at the time of the rebel raid at Gettysburg, enlisting for three months; after serving their time they were honorably mustered out.
