Special Telegram to the Inter-Ocean.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 27. -- A dispatch was received here to-day announcing the sudden death of the Hon. Olney Hawkins, of this city, at Ottawa, Ill. He left Ann Arbor on Saturday night last to attend to important legal business in Illinois. Mr. Hawkins was one of the most prominent members of the Washtenaw County bar, and immediately on receipt of the news Judge Crane adjourned court out of respect for the deceased. He was 68 years of age, and has held many prominent positions of trust in the State, and had been a resident of Ann Arbor for forty-five years.
Source: Daily Inter-Ocean, Chicago, Ill., Sept. 28, 1875
Edward T. Dobbs, who resides at No. 167 State street, Brooklyn, was born in Troy, New York, June 27, 1853, and is a son of John and Lizzie (Porter) Dobbs, also natives of the Empire state, the father being a descendant of the original owners of Dobbs Ferry. The father of our subject was a printer by trade and in early life became the proprietor and publisher of the Winona "Daily and Weekly Republican," of Winona, Minnesota. He died in 1895, having survived his wife twenty-six years. In their family were five children Edward Thomas; William J., who is in the railroad business in Omaha, Nebraska; Herbert O., who died at the age of twenty-two years; Jennie, who died at the age of three years; and Charles, who died in infancy.
The Doctor was educated in the public schools of Winona, and afterward studied dentistry in the office of Dr. Walter F. Lewis, of that place. He completed his professional education in the New York College of Dentistry, in which he was graduated with the class of 1877, and later he was associated for three years with Dr. William Tell La Roche, of New York. For a similar period he was with Dr. C. D. Cook, of Brooklyn, after which he opened an office of his own at the corner of State and Henry streets. Two years later he removed to his present location, where he has since conducted a large dental practice, being proficient in his profession in each department of the work. He is a member of the Second District Dental Society, and was formerly a member of the First District Dental Society.
Dr. Dobbs was united in marriage, January 10, 1883, to Miss Jeannie Scott Hawkins, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and they had one child, James Welsh, who died at the age of eighteen months. The Doctor and his wife are members of Christ Episcopal church, and he belongs to Bedford Lodge, F. & A. M.; Orient Chapter, R. A. M.; General Putnam Council, K P; and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. In his political views he is a Republican, and has served his party as a delegate to state and county conventions.
Source: "A history of Long Island: from its earliest settlement to the present time", Peter Ross; New York: Lewis Pub. Co., 1902
Dr. Henry Lord Cochran, who retired in 1926 after many years of surgical practice in Brooklyn, died yesterday in his residence, 1326 Madison Avenue, after more than a year's illness, at the age of 81. A son, Harry S. Cochran of the same address, survives.
Dr. Cochran, a son of the late David Cochran, former president of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, received his professional education at the Long Island College Hospital. For forty-five years he was an examining surgeon for the Commercial Travelers Insurance Company of Utica, for twenty-five years he was an officer of the Medical Corps of the State militia, attached to the Twenty-third Regiment of Brooklyn.
Source: New York Times
GOODCIL BUCKINGHAM, born June 30, 1841, in McConnelsville, Ohio, son of Rev. Goodsell and Eliza (Thompson) Buckingham; was twice married: 1st, January 22, 1873, in Bridgeport, Conn., to Ida C. Hall, who was born July 16, 1850, in Bridgeport, Conn., daughter of Henry and Catharine Hall. She died September 4, 1884, in Morristown, N. J., and is interred in Bridgeport, Conn.
2d, January 19, 1886, in New York City, to Frances Palmer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who was born in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Mr. Buckingham died May 3, 1890, in Brooklyn, N. Y., and is interred in Bridgeport, Conn., by his first wife.
He was a Banker and Broker. Was a clerk in his father's store in Keokuk, Iowa, 1855 to 1857; in College at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, 1858 to 1861; entered the 1st Iowa Infantry, Co. F., April, 1861, participated in a number of battles during the early part of the war and was with his Company at Wilsons Creek but a few feet from Gen. Lyon when that gallant officer was shot. In the War Department at Washington, 1863, Corresponding Clerk and in charge of the Government Bond Department of Jay Cooke & Co., in Washington and New York. Entered the Banking business in 1868, and was engaged in this business at the time of his death in 1890. A man of unusually bright and happy disposition, and though a great sufferer by disease for 20 years, was always cheerful and hopeful for the future. A good husband and faithful father, an honest man, and loyal citizen, he died regretted by a large circle of friends and relatives.
He joined the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1873, and remained in this faith till his death, dying in the full hope of an Eternal life in the bright beyond.
Source: "The ancestors of Ebenezer Buckingham, who was born in 1748 : and of his decendants", James Buckingham; Chicago?: unknown, 1892
