Bourke cockran biography
- William Bourke Cockran (February 28, 1854 – March 1, 1923), commonly known as Bourke Cockran or Burke Cochran in contemporary reports, was an Irish-American.
- Biographical/historical information.
- An Irish reformer William Bourke Cockran was born in County Sligo, Ireland on February 28, 1854.
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William Bourke Cockran papers
1881-1924William Bourke Cockran was born in Sligo, Ireland on February 28, 1854, the son of Martin and Harriet (Knight) Cockran. He was educated in Ireland and in France. Although destined for the priesthood, he decided in 1871, at age seventeen, to emigrate to the United States where he found employment as a department store clerk, and later, as principal of a public school in Tuckahoe, New York. During this time he spent his evenings studying law. Admitted to the New York bar in 1876 he quickly became prominent in Democratic Party politics due in part to his extraordinary oratorical gifts which brought him to the attention of the Democratic National Committee. For his espousal of the Tammany cause he was rewarded with an appointment as counsel to the sheriff of New York County whom he subsequently defended in several legal cases. He was elected several times to the House of Representatives serving in various Congresses: the 50th (1887-1889), the 52nd and 53rd (1891-1895), the 58th (1904-1905), and the 59th and 60th (1905-1909). In 1909, fo
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Preserving a Piece of Sands Point History:
The Cockran Barns
By Betsy Silverstein
The Historic Landmark Preservation Commission of the Village of Sands Point recently designated its 12th local landmark: the Cockran Barns at 1 South Road in Harbor Acres.
The distinctive turn-of-the-century buildings were once part of “The Cedars,” the vast estate of Congressman William Bourke Cockran (1854 — 1923). Cockran purchased the 300-acre parcel in 1887. The complex includes the main house (formerly a horse barn) and a large cow barn that are connected by a breezeway that once sheltered sheep (a “hopple”). There is also a small house that served as an ice house and smokehouse and a shed that housed chickens and “Weaver” the bull.
W. Bourke Cockran was born in Ireland in 1854 and immigrated to the United States at the age of 17. He became a wealthy and prominent lawyer and a powerful congressman. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1886, 1890 and 1892, representing New York’s 12th District.
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May 7, 2015
Finest Hour 115, Summer 2002
Page 14
By Curt J. Zoller
When young Winston Churchill traveled to New York in 1895 on his way to Cuba, he was greeted by William Bourke Cockran1, a New York lawyer, U.S. congressman, friend of his mother’s and of his American relatives. Clara Jerome,2 Jennie’s sister, was married to Moreton Frewen, the peripatetic “Mortal Ruin” who would commit all those typos in the editing of Churchill’s first book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force. For many years Frewen had been a friend of Cockran, who would grow to become one of Winston Churchill’s lifelong inspirations.
Churchill later wrote of “the strong impression which this remarkable man made upon my untutored mind. I have never seen his like, or in some respects his equal. With his enormous head, gleaming eyes, flexible countenance, he looked uncommonly like a portrait of Charles James Fox. It was not my fortune to hear any of his orations but his conversations, in point, in pith, in rotundity, in antithesis, and in comprehension, exceeded anything I have ever he
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