Joseph Cochran
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Joseph Plumb Cochran (Jan 14, 1855 - August 18, 1905) was an American Presbyterian missionary.
He is often credited for founding Iran’s "first contemporary medical college".
In 1876, he graduated from New York Medical College, met his wife Katharine Hale in Minnesota, and moved to Iran with her in 1878.
The website of Urmia University credits Cochran for founding the university and for "lowering the infant mortality rate in the region".
The medical faculty he established there was soon joined by other Americans, namely Drs. Wright, Homlz, van Nourdon, and Miller. They were all buried in Urmia.
The website of Urmia University says this about him and his team:
- "There they lie in peace away from their homeland, and the testimonial epitaphs on their tombs signify their endeavor and devotion to humanity."
Dr. Cochran was followed in the American Mission Hospital by his son, Joseph P. Cochran, Jr.,who returned to Iran in 1920. His daughter, Dorothy Cochran Romson, served as a short-term missionary nurse in the Azerbaijan city of Tabriz.
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[edit] References
- His biography on the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences website
- Speer, The foreign Doctor, A biography of Joseph Plumb Cochran, 1911, New York.
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