Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 508.
 
CHARLES K. COCHRAN

     is one of the largest landholders and most extensive farmers in the
northern portion of Sherman county. He is a southerner by birth, the place of
his nativity being Macon county, North Carolina, and the date June 29, 1869. He
is the son of Washington and Amanda (Davis) Cochran, the father a native North
Carolinian; the mother a native of Scotland. The ancestry of the father were
Irish. The latter was a farmer, but served four years in the confederate army
during the Civil War. Following the close of the trouble he returned to his farm
and remained a staunch Republican until the day of his death, in 1899. He was a
highly esteemed and respected citizen throughout his life. The mother of our
subject passed away when he was about seven years of age.
     The subject of this sketch, Charles K. Cochran, was educated in the public
schools and worked with his father on the farm until he was twenty-two years
old. He then went to Cripple Creek, Colorado, and visited other mining towns,
and worked at various employments for eighteen years. After that he came to The
Dalles, Oregon, where he found employment on the sheep ranch of H. W. Wells,
near Bakeoven, Wasco county. Here he remained two years and then engaged in the
same business for himself two years, and was eminently successful. Purchasing a
section of land four miles south of Moro he began raising cattle, having at
present two hundred and seventy-five head on his place. He has the present
season (spring of 1905) one thousand four hundred acres in wheat, and for a
range he rents seven sections of land. In June, 1904, Mr. Cochran opened a meat
market in Moro.
     May 10, 1896, at the residence of the bride's parents, our subject was
united in marriage to Mary O. Powell, born in Prineville, Crook county, Oregon.
She is the daughter of J. Marion and Elza (Barr) Powell, who crossed the plains
with ox teams and were married in the Willamette Valley. Our subject has one
brother, three half-brothers, three sisters and three half-sisters, viz.: James,
of Grass Valley ; William, on subject's ranch ; Edward and Harley, both at home
in North Carolina ; Jennie, wife of Ransom Brown, a blacksmith and wagon maker,
of Highlands, North Carolina ; Emma, wife of Robert Bethel, of Crescent City,
Florida; Sarah, wife of Jesse Dewese, a farmer near Hewitts, North Carolina ;
Hattie, Carrie, and Ollie, all single and at the old home in North Carolina.
     To Mr. and Mrs. Cochran have been born four boys, Loy, Lorin, Clarence and
Norval. Our subject is a member of Eureka Lodge, No. 121, A. F. & A. M., of
Moro, and No. 113, I. O. O. F. His political affiliations are with the
Republican party. He is a man of sterling character, honest and upright in his
dealings, and of superior business sagacity and sound judgment. Socially and in
a business way he has won, and retains the confidence of his acquaintances and
numbers a wide circle of friends.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in July 2007 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.