COBB, Elder NEEDHAM B. has been for a time a member of the Broad River and King's Mountain Associations. In 1871 he represented Shelby church in the session of the Broad River Association of that year, held at Philadelphia church, Spartanburg County, S. C. At that session the Shelby church was dismissed, and afterwards joined the King's Mountain Association in 1872, when Elder Cobb was again a delegate from the Shelby church, in the session of the latter body of that year.
We copy from Dr. Cathcart's Baptist Encyclopedia a notice of Elder N. B. Cobb. "He was born in Wayne county, N. C, Feb. 1st, 1836; graduated at Chapel Hill at eighteen, in 1854; taught school in Cabarrus county and Goldsborough till 1857, when he read law with Chief Justice Pearson, and practiced in Pitt, Wayne and Green counties till October, 1859, when he left the Episcopal church, in which he had been a vestryman for several years, and was baptized by Rev. H. Petty, and ordained in Wilson in 1860, the Presbytery consisting of Revs. Levi Thorne, I. B. Solomon, H. Petty, G. W. Keene, W. C. Lacy and J. G. Barclay. Mr. Cobb was chaplain of the 4th N. C. Regiment for a time, and rendered distinguished service to the cause of religion as superintendent of army colportage from 1862 till the close of the war. After the war ended Mr. Cobb in connection with Dr. J. D. Hutham, edited the Daily Record, of Raleigh, for six months; he then became corresponding secretary of the Sunday School board, and has since served as pastor of the churches of Elizabeth City, Second Church of Portsmouth, Va., Shelby, N. C, Lilesville, Rockingham, and Fayetteville, and has taught much in connection with preaching. Mr. Cobb is the Baptist statistician of N. C, and at present the president of the Baptist State Convention
Elder Cobb is like Zaccheus of old, "little in stature,'' but he is a man of large and well developed mind; and besides preaching good sermons, he writes many good essays, both in prose and poetry. …..
[Sketches, historical and biographical, of the Broad River and King's Mountain Baptist Associations. By John Randolph Logan 1887. Submitted by Venetta McKinney]