[p. 790] one of Mahoningtown's leading business men, where he is engaged in a livery and undertaking business, is one of Mahoningtown's most substantial citizens. He was born August 7, 1861, in Little Beaver Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of James and Hannah (McKim) Cochran.
Mr. Cochran was reared and educated in Little Beaver Township, where his late father was a prominent and wealthy farmer, at one time owning the valuable land on which the Lea & Patterson Coal Company opened their first coal mines. At the age of twenty-five years David H. Cochran came to Mahoningtown and started his livery and later added undertaking to his business. His main interests are, however, centered in farming and stockraising and he makes a specialty of buying and selling horses and of raising fine specimens on his two farms, which adjoin and contain about 212 acres. They are situated on the Mahoningtown and Moravia road, in North Beaver Township. He is president of the New Castle Trotting Association and one of its directors. He was one of the founders and is a director and stockholder in the Valley View Cemetery.
Mr. Cochran married Nanie Ritchie, who is a daughter of William Ritchie, of Taylor Township, and they have two children—William J. and Mary Matilda. Mr. Cochran stands very high in the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and takes an active part in all movements of public importance in his section.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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