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CHARLES E. COBB is a son of Charles and Eliza (Curtiss) Cobb, and was born in Harbour Creek, Erie county, Pennsylvania, October 18, 1856. His paternal grandfather, Bassett Cobb, was a native of Connecticut, was for several years a resident of this county, whence he removed to Erie county, Pa., spending the balance of his days there, being a farmer by occupation, and in politics a whig and later a republican. He married and had five sons and three daughters. Charles Cobb (father) was born on March 3, 1826, and when a young man came to this county and settled in Sinclairville, town of Charlotte, where he followed the occupation of a farmer. He served in the army one and one-half years during the civil war, enlisting in 1862. In 1852 he married Eliza Curtiss, by whom he had two children: Ida, wife of William McKinley, a farmer in Ashtabula, Ohio; and Charles E.

Charles E. Cobb was reared on the farm until he was nineteen years of age, and received his education in the common schools. After leaving school he went to the oil regions and worked as a contractor in developing the oil territory, for a few years owning and operating his own territory. He came to Sherman in the spring of 1884, and engaged in the lumber manufacturing business, purchasing the interest of a Mr. Burns, and operated the plant himself until 1887, when he associated with him as partner William Freeman, and during the busy season employed twenty men, making a specialty of heading, staves and fruit barrels, besides all kinds of lumber. He also owns some oil-producing property in Butler county. Pa. In politics he is a republican, and is a member of the board of trustees of Sherman. He is a member of Olive Lodge, No. 575, F. & A. M., and Sherman Lodge, No. 45, A. O. U. W.

Charles E. Cobb united in marriage with Kate M. Russell, a daughter of Wilber Russell, of Cameron county, Pa. This union has been blest with one daughter: Nina B., who was born March 2, 1882.