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Howell COBB #42203

7 SEP 1815 - 9 OCT 1868

Personal Information

  • EDUCATION: Franklin College
    1834, Athens, Clarke, Georgia, USA
  • OCCUPATION: Attorney
    1836
  • BIRTH: Cherry Hill Plantation
    7 SEP 1815, Jefferson, Georgia, USA
  • BURIAL: Oconee Hills Cemetery
    Athens, Clarke, Georgia, USA
  • EVENT: Solicitor General for western circuit of Georgia
    Appointment: 1837
  • DEATH: 9 OCT 1868, New York, New York, New York, USA
  • EVENT: US Congressman from Georgia
    Appointment: BET 1843 AND 1851
  • EVENT: Governor of Georgia
    Appointment: BET 1851 AND 1853
  • EVENT: US Congressman from Georgia
    Appointment: BET 1851 AND 1853
  • EVENT: US Congressman from Georgia
    Appointment: BET 1855 AND 1857
  • EVENT: Elected President of the provisional Congress of the Confederacy
    Appointment: 1861
  • EVENT: Democrat, Elected U.S. House of Representatives
    Appointment: 1842
  • EVENT: Speaker of the House
    Appointment: 1849
  • EVENT: Secretary of Treasury under President Buchanan
    Appointment: 1856
  • EVENT: President of Alabama Convention- Provisional Confederate Governmen
    Appointment: JAN 1861
  • EVENT: Secretary of the U. S. Treasury
    Appointment: 1857

Parents

Father: John Addison COBB #42173

Mother: Sarah Robinson ROOTES #42193

Family 1 :

Wife: Mary Ann LAMAR

  • MARRIAGE: 26 MAY 1835, Americus, Sumter, Georgia, USA
Note:

Children:

  1.  +Andrew Jackson COBB Sr. #42298
  2.  +Sarah Mildred COBB #42299
  3.   Elizabeth Craig COBB #42300
  4.   Mary Ann Lamar COBB #42301
  5.   Basil Lamar COBB #42302
  6.   Henry Jackson COBB #42303
  7.   James COBB #42305
  8.  +John Addison COBB II #42306
  9.  +Zachariah Lamar COBB #42307
  10.  +Howell COBB Jr. #42338
 
 
                                                  _John COBBS ___________+
                                                 | (1691 - 1758) m 1712  
                          _John Addison COBBS ___|
                         | (1740 - 1803) m 1769  |
                         |                       |_Susannah ADDISON _____
                         |                         (1691 - 1772) m 1712  
 _John Addison COBB _____|
| (1783 - 1855) m 1812   |
|                        |                        _Howell LEWIS _________+
|                        |                       | (1731 - 1813) m 1765  
|                        |_Mildred LEWIS ________|
|                          (1750 - 1791) m 1769  |
|                                                |_Mary Isabella WILLIS _+
|                                                  (1733 - 1813) m 1765  
|
|--Howell COBB 
|  (1815 - 1868)
|                                                 _______________________
|                                                |                       
|                         _Thomas Reade ROOTES __|
|                        | (1763 - 1824)         |
|                        |                       |_______________________
|                        |                                               
|_Sarah Robinson ROOTES _|
  (1792 - 1866) m 1812   |
                         |                        _______________________
                         |                       |                       
                         |_Sarah Ring BATTAILLE _|
                           (1765 - 1811)         |
                                                 |_______________________

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