Nelson's biographical dictionary and historical reference book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : containing a condensed history of Pennsylvania, of Fayette County, and the boroughs and townships of the county :also, portraits and biographies of the governors since 1790, and genealogies,family histories and biographies of representative men of the county :illustrated . hildren. MoRDECAi CocHRAX, to whom belongs thecredit for having introduced what is knownas Connellsville coke to the manufacturingworld, was one of a historic family in the an-nals of Western Pennsylvania. The Cochranfamily, of w
Nelson's biographical dictionary and historical reference book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : containing a condensed history of Pennsylvania, of Fayette County, and the boroughs and townships of the county :also, portraits and biographies of the governors since 1790, and genealogies,family histories and biographies of representative men of the county :illustrated . hildren. MoRDECAi CocHRAX, to whom belongs thecredit for having introduced what is knownas Connellsville coke to the manufacturingworld, was one of a historic family in the an-nals of Western Pennsylvania. The Cochranfamily, of what is now Faj-ette county, hadits founder in the person of John Cochran,who came to the American colonies about1745 and settled in Chester county, Pennsyl-vania, where he married into the Sanfordfamily, of English origin. Of their childrenall save one, Samuel, died without , who was born July 24, 1750, becamea soldier in the Patriot army, serving with acompany which was enlisted in Cumberlandcounty and was part of the PennsylvaniaLine that fought at Paoli, Brandywine andGermantown, and was with Washington atValley Forge. vSamuel Cochran marriedEsther, daughter of Daniel John, a leadingFriend of Chester county, who was broughtto the American colonies by Willian Penn topreach to the Indians and Quakers, andwhose descendants afterward settled in Fav-. 4^,-^.^^^ AND HISTORICAL REFERENCE BOOK OF FAYETTE COUNTY. 535 ette county. One of Daniel Johns sonsowned a part of Harpers Ferry, and agrandson, Gideon John, was sheriff of Fay-ette county about 1850. Samuel Cochrancame with his family to Fayette countyshortly after the close of the Revolutionarywar, settling in Tyrone township, where hepurchased a three hundred acre tract of landfrom Joseph Huston. His wife, Esther, diedOctober 8, 1802, leaving six children: James,Samuel, Isaac, Thomas, John and second wife, Agnes, bore him one child,Esther, who married John Strickler, of Ty-rone township. Samuel Cochran w
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