BIOGRAPHY

WILLIAM COCKRAN - OF BATAVIA, NY

Cockran, William, was born in Devonshire, England, October 15, 1831, and emigrated to the United States in 1854, settling in Batavia. In 1860 he married Jane Carroll; they have one son and one daughter, Albert E. and Mary J. Mr. Cockran is one of the leading farmers of Genesee County, is active in school and church matters and has the reputation of being a man of sterling integrity and progressive ideas.

Source: Our County and its people, A descriptive work on Genesee County, New York, Edited by: F. W. Beers, J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1890