A Family Genealogy of
the Gentle House of Stapleton
 

William Peyton COBB

[N2561]

1 JAN 1880 - 23 JUL 1963

  • OCCUPATION: Secretary of State
    1918
  • EDUCATION: University of Alabama School of Law
    JUN 1905, Alabama, USA
  • OCCUPATION: Democratic National Convention
    1916
  • OCCUPATION: Democratic Presidential Elector from the State at Large
    1912, Alabama, USA
  • OCCUPATION: Supervisor of Census, 5th District
    1910, Alabama, USA
  • OCCUPATION: Register in Chancery
    BET 1901 AND 1904, Macon, Georgia, USA
  • OCCUPATION: Lawyer
    JUN 1905, Tuskegee, Macon, Alabama, USA
  • EDUCATION: Troy Normal College
    JUN 1900, Troy, Pike, Alabama, USA
  • EDUCATION: Park High School
    LaGrange, Georgia
  • EDUCATION: Alabama Military Institute
    Tuskegee, Macon, Alabama, USA
  • BIRTH: 1 JAN 1880, Alabama, USA
  • DEATH: 23 JUL 1963
  • REFERENCE: 43344
Father: James Edward COBB
Mother: Caroline Elizabeth HUNTER 

                                                        _Thomas COBBS _______________+
                                                       | (1764 - 1816) m 1790        
                              _William Anderson COBB __|
                             | (1798 - 1877) m 1819    |
                             |                         |_Catherine STITH ____________
                             |                           (1766 - 1832) m 1790        
 _James Edward COBB _________|
| (1835 - 1903) m 1867       |
|                            |                          _Daniel Downie MACMURPHY Sr._+
|                            |                         | (1737 - 1819) m 1778        
|                            |_Jane Augusta MACMURPHY _|
|                              (1797 - 1854) m 1819    |
|                                                      |_Susannah CROSSLEY __________+
|                                                        (1750 - 1818) m 1778        
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|--William Peyton COBB 
|  (1880 - 1963)
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|_Caroline Elizabeth HUNTER _|
  (1839 - ....) m 1867       |
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[N2561] W. P. Cobb received his early education in the Alabama Military Institute, Tuskegee; Park High School, La Grange, Ga. He attended Troy Normal College, Troy, Ala., graduating in June, 1900; he entered the Law Department of the University of Alabama, from which he graduated, June, 1905, and was admitted to the same month to the practice of law at Tuskegee. He was register in chancery, Macon County, 1901-1904; supervisor of census, 5th Alabama District, 1910; presidential elector from the State at large (Democratic), 1912; delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1916; was elected Secretary of State, 1918.

He was a Democrat; a Methodist; a Master Mason, a member of the Royal Arch and Knight Templar and the K. of P. He was unmarried.