William Avery Cochrane (1842–1929) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Biography
Cochrane was born on January 8, 1842, in Ripley, New York. During the American Civil War, he served with the 40th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army. In 1867, he graduated from Beloit College and became a teacher at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf. Cochrane died in August 1929.
Political career
Cochrane was elected to the Assembly in 1892. Additionally, he was an alderman and a member of the school board of Delavan, Wisconsin. He was a Republican.
References
- WISCONSIN LIBRARY BULLETIN. Madison, Wisconsin. 1929. p. 313.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - THE BLUE BOOK OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN. 1893. pp. 653–654.
- People from Ripley, New York
- People from Delavan, Wisconsin
- Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
- Wisconsin city council members
- School board members in Wisconsin
- Beloit College alumni
- People of Wisconsin in the American Civil War
- Union army soldiers
- Schoolteachers from Wisconsin
- 1842 births
- 1929 deaths
- Educators from New York (state)
- 19th-century members of the Wisconsin Legislature