Samuel C. Cobb

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Samuel Crocker Cobb
Mayor of Boston
In office
1874–1877
Preceded byLeonard R. Cutter
Succeeded byFrederick O. Prince
Member of the
Boston Board of Aldermen
In office
1867[1]–1867[1]
Member of the
Roxbury, Massachusetts
Board of Aldermen[1]
In office
1860[1]–1860[1]
Personal details
Born(1826-05-22)May 22, 1826[2]
Taunton, Massachusetts[2]
DiedFebruary 18, 1891(1891-02-18) (aged 64)[2]
Boston, Massachusetts[2]
NationalityAmerican
Political partyWhig; Nonpartisan
SpouseAurelia L. Beattie[1][3]
Alma materBristol Academy,[3] Taunton, Massachusetts
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Samuel Crocker Cobb (May 22, 1826 – February 18, 1891)[2] was a businessman and politician who served on the city councils of the cities Roxbury, Massachusetts and Boston, Massachusetts and who served three consecutive terms as the mayor of Boston.

Early life

Cobb was born May 22, 1826, in Taunton, Massachusetts to David George Washington Cobb and Abby (Crocker) Cobb.[3]

Family life

On November 21, 1848, Cobb married Aurelia L. Beattie, in Belfast, Maine. Aurelia was the third daughter of William and Jane I. Beattie of East Thomaston, Maine.[4]

Mayor of Boston

Cobb was elected mayor in November 1873.

Cobb opposed creating jobs for the unemployed after the Panic of 1873, declaring the idea "subversive to our whole social fabric, tending directly to communism in its worst form."[5]

The event of greatest historical interest during Mayor Cobb's administration was the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. It is related that on this occasion many men who had taken leading parts in the war of the rebellion, both Unionists and Confederates, met for the first time in peace. Cobb was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vol. IX 1890–1897, Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1908, p. 38
  2. ^ a b c d e Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vol. IX 1890–1897, Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1908, p. 37
  3. ^ a b c Davis, William Thomas (1894), Professional and Industrial History of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Volume II, Boston, MA: The Boston History Company, p. 534
  4. ^ Davis, William Thomas (1894), Professional and Industrial History of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Volume II, Boston, MA: The Boston History Company, p. 535
  5. ^ When in Boston: A Time Line at Google Books
  6. ^ Address by S.C. Cobb at Google Books

Further reading

Political offices
Preceded by 24th Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
1874–1877 		Succeeded by


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