Samuel Sylvester Cobb

Samuel S. Cobb, the youngest son of J.B. Cobb and Evaline Clingan,^[1] was born on December 12, 1865, in Bradley County, Tennessee, USA. In 1870, Cobb and his family traveled by train to Fort Scott, Kansas, where they loaded up and took a wagon to Tahlequah, Indian Territory, the Cherokee Nation's capital. After about ten months Cobb and his family left Tahlequah and settled southeast of the present day town of Wagoner. At this spot Cobb's father paid $1500 to a Cherokee for a two-room box house, a log barn and a few acres of fenced land. All the land was owned together by the Cherokees and anyone could farm as much they wanted as long as no one's rights were infringed upon.^[2] Cobb went to school at home until he was sixteen, then entered the Cherokee Male Seminary, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, for two years. In 1884 he became a student at the State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University) in Manhattan, Kansas and graduated after four years in 1889.^[2]

Wagoner

The Cobb Building in Wagoner

On return to Indian Territory, Cobb went to work for The Brother in Red, a weekly paper published in Muskogee. Cobb worked there for until July, 1890, when he opened a drug store in Wagoner. Cobb was also appointed as Wagoner's second postmaster on August 6, 1890.^[2] In 1895 construction was completed on the building to be used for his drug store; the Cobb Building was Wagoner's first brick business building and was listed on the NRHP in 1982.^[3] Cobb used the building throughout his life for his drug store, as the first post office, and as an office for his real estate business in the early 1900s.^[2]

Personal

Cobb married Carrie Kennedy Hunter (1869 - 1947) and had six children together. Cobb died October 11, 1947 in Wagoner, Oklahoma.^[1]

External links

• "A History of Wagoner, Oklahoma from Samuel Sylvester Cobb."

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