DR. MAHLON W. COCHRAN died at his home on North Main Street, at 5:30 o'clock Monday morning, November 30, of diphtheria, aged 33 years and 1 day. The funeral was held at 9 o'clock a.m. Tuesday, and the remains interred in the Four Corners Cemetery, near North Liberty.
The circumstances surrounding the sickness, death and burial of Dr. Cochran were peculiarly sad. He was a young man in his profession, and always responded promptly to the call of the sick, jeopardizing his own life in the effort to relieve suffering. It was on such a mission as this that he contracted the disease which eventually resulted in his death. Along about the forepart of November he was summoned to attend a case of black diphtheria in the home of George Swihart, north of town, where a daughter was sick with the disease and who, by the way, finally became a victim of its ravages. A few days after he returned from this trip he was taken sick, and on Tuesday evening, November 17, was compelled to give up his practice and take to his bed, from which he never arose. The best medical assistance was procured that was available, but all their efforts were in vain. The disease made rapid progress and finally terminated in his death, after two weeks illness.
Mahlon W. Cochran was born near North Liberty, November 29, 1863. He entered college at Cleveland in 1886, from which he graduated in 1888, and began the practice of medicine at Lewis Center, in December of that year. He remained at that place four years then spent one year in traveling for the benefit of his health. On his return from this trip he located in Martel, remaining there for two years, and thence came to Butler, in the spring of 1895, since which time he has been actively engaged in professional practice until the time of his death. In 1894 he was united in marriage to Miss Dora Reed, of North Liberty, who now is left to mourn the loss of a loving husband and companion. And may He who has promised to be a husband to the widow heal the broken heart and soothe her sorrows.
Dr. Cochran was just in the prime of his manhood when the grim reaper, Death, laid his icy hand upon him and summoned him to a better world. He, kind and considerate to all, with a cheering word for everybody, was in return loved and respected by all his large circle of acquaintances and friends. He was an active member of high standing in the K.of P., I.O.O.F., and D.of R. Lodges, the members of which sincerely regretted their inability to attend his funeral, because of the dread contagion of the disease. He was also a worker in Sunday School, as much as his professional practice would permit.
In his death, Butler loses one of its most prominent, popular citizens, and we can hardly realize that we shall see his face no more. His wife has the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community in this sad bereavement; and all would willingly have done more for her husband had it been possible.
(RICHLAND SHIELD & BANNER: 5 December 1896, Vol. LXXIX, No. 30)
The circumstances surrounding the sickness, death and burial of Dr. Cochran were peculiarly sad. He was a young man in his profession, and always responded promptly to the call of the sick, jeopardizing his own life in the effort to relieve suffering. It was on such a mission as this that he contracted the disease which eventually resulted in his death. Along about the forepart of November he was summoned to attend a case of black diphtheria in the home of George Swihart, north of town, where a daughter was sick with the disease and who, by the way, finally became a victim of its ravages. A few days after he returned from this trip he was taken sick, and on Tuesday evening, November 17, was compelled to give up his practice and take to his bed, from which he never arose. The best medical assistance was procured that was available, but all their efforts were in vain. The disease made rapid progress and finally terminated in his death, after two weeks illness.
Mahlon W. Cochran was born near North Liberty, November 29, 1863. He entered college at Cleveland in 1886, from which he graduated in 1888, and began the practice of medicine at Lewis Center, in December of that year. He remained at that place four years then spent one year in traveling for the benefit of his health. On his return from this trip he located in Martel, remaining there for two years, and thence came to Butler, in the spring of 1895, since which time he has been actively engaged in professional practice until the time of his death. In 1894 he was united in marriage to Miss Dora Reed, of North Liberty, who now is left to mourn the loss of a loving husband and companion. And may He who has promised to be a husband to the widow heal the broken heart and soothe her sorrows.
Dr. Cochran was just in the prime of his manhood when the grim reaper, Death, laid his icy hand upon him and summoned him to a better world. He, kind and considerate to all, with a cheering word for everybody, was in return loved and respected by all his large circle of acquaintances and friends. He was an active member of high standing in the K.of P., I.O.O.F., and D.of R. Lodges, the members of which sincerely regretted their inability to attend his funeral, because of the dread contagion of the disease. He was also a worker in Sunday School, as much as his professional practice would permit.
In his death, Butler loses one of its most prominent, popular citizens, and we can hardly realize that we shall see his face no more. His wife has the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community in this sad bereavement; and all would willingly have done more for her husband had it been possible.
(RICHLAND SHIELD & BANNER: 5 December 1896, Vol. LXXIX, No. 30)
DR. MAHLON W. COCHRAN died at his home on North Main Street, at 5:30 o'clock Monday morning, November 30, of diphtheria, aged 33 years and 1 day. The funeral was held at 9 o'clock a.m. Tuesday, and the remains interred in the Four Corners Cemetery, near North Liberty.
The circumstances surrounding the sickness, death and burial of Dr. Cochran were peculiarly sad. He was a young man in his profession, and always responded promptly to the call of the sick, jeopardizing his own life in the effort to relieve suffering. It was on such a mission as this that he contracted the disease which eventually resulted in his death. Along about the forepart of November he was summoned to attend a case of black diphtheria in the home of George Swihart, north of town, where a daughter was sick with the disease and who, by the way, finally became a victim of its ravages. A few days after he returned from this trip he was taken sick, and on Tuesday evening, November 17, was compelled to give up his practice and take to his bed, from which he never arose. The best medical assistance was procured that was available, but all their efforts were in vain. The disease made rapid progress and finally terminated in his death, after two weeks illness.
Mahlon W. Cochran was born near North Liberty, November 29, 1863. He entered college at Cleveland in 1886, from which he graduated in 1888, and began the practice of medicine at Lewis Center, in December of that year. He remained at that place four years then spent one year in traveling for the benefit of his health. On his return from this trip he located in Martel, remaining there for two years, and thence came to Butler, in the spring of 1895, since which time he has been actively engaged in professional practice until the time of his death. In 1894 he was united in marriage to Miss Dora Reed, of North Liberty, who now is left to mourn the loss of a loving husband and companion. And may He who has promised to be a husband to the widow heal the broken heart and soothe her sorrows.
Dr. Cochran was just in the prime of his manhood when the grim reaper, Death, laid his icy hand upon him and summoned him to a better world. He, kind and considerate to all, with a cheering word for everybody, was in return loved and respected by all his large circle of acquaintances and friends. He was an active member of high standing in the K.of P., I.O.O.F., and D.of R. Lodges, the members of which sincerely regretted their inability to attend his funeral, because of the dread contagion of the disease. He was also a worker in Sunday School, as much as his professional practice would permit.
In his death, Butler loses one of its most prominent, popular citizens, and we can hardly realize that we shall see his face no more. His wife has the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community in this sad bereavement; and all would willingly have done more for her husband had it been possible.
(RICHLAND SHIELD & BANNER: 5 December 1896, Vol. LXXIX, No. 30)
The circumstances surrounding the sickness, death and burial of Dr. Cochran were peculiarly sad. He was a young man in his profession, and always responded promptly to the call of the sick, jeopardizing his own life in the effort to relieve suffering. It was on such a mission as this that he contracted the disease which eventually resulted in his death. Along about the forepart of November he was summoned to attend a case of black diphtheria in the home of George Swihart, north of town, where a daughter was sick with the disease and who, by the way, finally became a victim of its ravages. A few days after he returned from this trip he was taken sick, and on Tuesday evening, November 17, was compelled to give up his practice and take to his bed, from which he never arose. The best medical assistance was procured that was available, but all their efforts were in vain. The disease made rapid progress and finally terminated in his death, after two weeks illness.
Mahlon W. Cochran was born near North Liberty, November 29, 1863. He entered college at Cleveland in 1886, from which he graduated in 1888, and began the practice of medicine at Lewis Center, in December of that year. He remained at that place four years then spent one year in traveling for the benefit of his health. On his return from this trip he located in Martel, remaining there for two years, and thence came to Butler, in the spring of 1895, since which time he has been actively engaged in professional practice until the time of his death. In 1894 he was united in marriage to Miss Dora Reed, of North Liberty, who now is left to mourn the loss of a loving husband and companion. And may He who has promised to be a husband to the widow heal the broken heart and soothe her sorrows.
Dr. Cochran was just in the prime of his manhood when the grim reaper, Death, laid his icy hand upon him and summoned him to a better world. He, kind and considerate to all, with a cheering word for everybody, was in return loved and respected by all his large circle of acquaintances and friends. He was an active member of high standing in the K.of P., I.O.O.F., and D.of R. Lodges, the members of which sincerely regretted their inability to attend his funeral, because of the dread contagion of the disease. He was also a worker in Sunday School, as much as his professional practice would permit.
In his death, Butler loses one of its most prominent, popular citizens, and we can hardly realize that we shall see his face no more. His wife has the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community in this sad bereavement; and all would willingly have done more for her husband had it been possible.
(RICHLAND SHIELD & BANNER: 5 December 1896, Vol. LXXIX, No. 30)
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